diff --git a/commands/playwave/playwave.c b/commands/playwave/playwave.c
index 28bdbf588..3a59e780a 100644
--- a/commands/playwave/playwave.c
+++ b/commands/playwave/playwave.c
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ int open_audio(unsigned int *fragment_size, unsigned int channels,
   int audio;
 
   /* Open DSP */
-  if ((audio = open("/dev/audio", O_RDWR | O_REOPEN)) < 0)
+  if ((audio = open("/dev/audio", O_RDWR)) < 0)
   {
     printf("Cannot open /dev/audio: %s\n", strerror(errno));
     exit(-1);
diff --git a/servers/vfs/misc.c b/servers/vfs/misc.c
index b78bf6a63..7ff9dd4f0 100644
--- a/servers/vfs/misc.c
+++ b/servers/vfs/misc.c
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ int do_fcntl(void)
 
     case F_SETFL:
 	/* Set file status flags (O_NONBLOCK and O_APPEND). */
-	fl = O_NONBLOCK | O_APPEND | O_REOPEN;
+	fl = O_NONBLOCK | O_APPEND;
 	f->filp_flags = (f->filp_flags & ~fl) | (fcntl_argx & fl);
 	break;
 
diff --git a/sys/sys/fcntl.h b/sys/sys/fcntl.h
index b8cce9577..b81ab3f32 100644
--- a/sys/sys/fcntl.h
+++ b/sys/sys/fcntl.h
@@ -121,10 +121,6 @@
 #define	O_NOSIGPIPE	0x01000000	/* don't deliver sigpipe */
 #endif
 
-#ifdef __minix
-#define O_REOPEN      0x10000000 /* automatically re-open after driver crash */
-#endif
-
 #ifdef _KERNEL
 /* convert from open() flags to/from fflags; convert O_RD/WR to FREAD/FWRITE */
 #define	FFLAGS(oflags)	((oflags) + 1)
@@ -197,10 +193,6 @@
 #define	F_SETNOSIGPIPE	14		/* set SIGPIPE disposition */
 #endif
 
-#ifdef __minix
-#define F_FREESP	100
-#endif
-
 /* file descriptor flags (F_GETFD, F_SETFD) */
 #define	FD_CLOEXEC	1		/* close-on-exec flag */
 
@@ -327,4 +319,8 @@ int	openat(int, const char *, int oflags, ...);
 __END_DECLS
 #endif /* !_KERNEL */
 
+#ifdef __minix
+#define F_FREESP       100
+#endif
+
 #endif /* !_SYS_FCNTL_H_ */