diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index 312bb60d0..561649b73 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -25,6 +25,10 @@ Changes between 2.4.1 and 2.4.2
   docs.
 
 
+- remove attempt to "dup" stdout at startup.  
+  the normal capturing should catch enough possibilities
+  of tests messing up standard FDs. 
+
 Changes between 2.4.0 and 2.4.1
 -----------------------------------
 
diff --git a/_pytest/terminal.py b/_pytest/terminal.py
index ab132d45e..55b5cd219 100644
--- a/_pytest/terminal.py
+++ b/_pytest/terminal.py
@@ -33,25 +33,7 @@ def pytest_addoption(parser):
 
 def pytest_configure(config):
     config.option.verbose -= config.option.quiet
-
-    # we try hard to make printing resilient against
-    # later changes on FD level. (unless capturing is off/sys)
-    stdout = sys.stdout
-    if hasattr(os, "dup") and hasattr(stdout, "fileno"):
-        try:
-            newstdout = py.io.dupfile(stdout, buffering=1,
-                                      encoding=stdout.encoding)
-        except (AttributeError, ValueError):
-            pass
-        else:
-            assert stdout.encoding == newstdout.encoding
-            stdout = newstdout
-            #we don't close on shutdown because this can
-            #cause logging to fail on a second close
-            #(not really clear to me how it happens exactly, though)
-            #config.pluginmanager.add_shutdown(fin)
-
-    reporter = TerminalReporter(config, stdout)
+    reporter = TerminalReporter(config, sys.stdout)
     config.pluginmanager.register(reporter, 'terminalreporter')
     if config.option.debug or config.option.traceconfig:
         def mywriter(tags, args):
diff --git a/testing/test_terminal.py b/testing/test_terminal.py
index 3b4be7be6..e36b890bc 100644
--- a/testing/test_terminal.py
+++ b/testing/test_terminal.py
@@ -704,14 +704,3 @@ def test_terminal_summary(testdir):
         *==== hello ====*
         world
     """)
-
-@pytest.mark.xfail("not hasattr(os, 'dup')")
-def test_fd_fixing(testdir):
-    testdir.makepyfile("""
-        import os
-        os.close(1)
-        def test_fdclose():
-            os.close(2)
-    """)
-    result = testdir.runpytest("-s")
-    result.stdout.fnmatch_lines("*1 pass*")