diff --git a/packages/vitest/src/runtime/collect.ts b/packages/vitest/src/runtime/collect.ts
index 35a74eb583bb..85df4c0e452e 100644
--- a/packages/vitest/src/runtime/collect.ts
+++ b/packages/vitest/src/runtime/collect.ts
@@ -61,8 +61,6 @@ export async function collectTests(paths: string[], config: ResolvedConfig) {
         state: 'fail',
         error: processError(e),
       }
-      // not sure thy, this line is needed to trigger the error
-      stdout().write('\0')
     }
 
     calculateHash(file)
diff --git a/packages/vitest/src/runtime/worker.ts b/packages/vitest/src/runtime/worker.ts
index 9f3beea54aa9..4765b6f07e50 100644
--- a/packages/vitest/src/runtime/worker.ts
+++ b/packages/vitest/src/runtime/worker.ts
@@ -63,8 +63,6 @@ function init(ctx: WorkerContext) {
   if (typeof __vitest_worker__ !== 'undefined' && ctx.config.threads && ctx.config.isolate)
     throw new Error(`worker for ${ctx.files.join(',')} already initialized by ${getWorkerState().ctx.files.join(',')}. This is probably an internal bug of Vitest.`)
 
-  stdout().write('\0')
-
   const { config, port, id } = ctx
 
   process.env.VITEST_WORKER_ID = String(id)