diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index a97a53f0e..82f1824fd 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ Any uppercase BUG_* names are modernish shell bug IDs.
   Ref.:	https://github.com/att/ast/issues/425
 	https://github.com/att/ast/pull/442
 
-- Fix BUG_PUTIOERR: Output builtins now correctly detect and report
+- Fix BUG_PUTIOERR: Output builtins now correctly detect
   input/output errors. This allows scripts to check for a nonzero exit
   status on the 'print', 'printf' and 'echo' builtins and prevent possible
   infinite loops if SIGPIPE is ignored.
diff --git a/src/cmd/ksh93/bltins/print.c b/src/cmd/ksh93/bltins/print.c
index 6d2f30203..d00aca628 100644
--- a/src/cmd/ksh93/bltins/print.c
+++ b/src/cmd/ksh93/bltins/print.c
@@ -373,8 +373,6 @@ skip2:
 		if (sfsync(outfile) < 0)
 			exitval = 1;
 	}
-	if (exitval)
-		errormsg(SH_DICT, 2, e_io);
 	return(exitval);
 }
 
diff --git a/src/cmd/ksh93/data/msg.c b/src/cmd/ksh93/data/msg.c
index bab44c11e..655e509cc 100644
--- a/src/cmd/ksh93/data/msg.c
+++ b/src/cmd/ksh93/data/msg.c
@@ -89,7 +89,6 @@ const char e_access[]		= "permission denied";
 const char e_direct[]		= "bad directory";
 const char e_file[]		= "%s: bad file unit number";
 const char e_redirect[]		= "redirection failed";
-const char e_io[]		= "I/O error";
 const char e_trap[]		= "%s: bad trap";
 const char e_readonly[]		= "%s: is read only";
 const char e_badfield[]		= "%d: negative field size";
diff --git a/src/cmd/ksh93/include/io.h b/src/cmd/ksh93/include/io.h
index 5836d0dc0..f82c5ca10 100644
--- a/src/cmd/ksh93/include/io.h
+++ b/src/cmd/ksh93/include/io.h
@@ -97,7 +97,6 @@ extern const char	e_tmpcreate[];
 extern const char	e_exists[];
 extern const char	e_file[];
 extern const char	e_redirect[];
-extern const char	e_io[];
 extern const char	e_formspec[];
 extern const char	e_badregexp[];
 extern const char	e_open[];
diff --git a/src/cmd/ksh93/tests/basic.sh b/src/cmd/ksh93/tests/basic.sh
index b73ec9474..d4a0a7bd6 100755
--- a/src/cmd/ksh93/tests/basic.sh
+++ b/src/cmd/ksh93/tests/basic.sh
@@ -446,7 +446,7 @@ done | while read sec; do ( "$binsleep" "$sec"; "$binsleep" "$sec") done
 s=SECONDS
 set -o pipefail
 for ((i=0; i < 30; i++))
-do	print hello 2>/dev/null
+do	print hello
 	sleep .01
 done |  "$binsleep" .1
 (( (SECONDS-s) < .2 )) || err_exit 'early termination not causing broken pipe'
@@ -486,7 +486,7 @@ bintrue=$(whence -p true)
 set -o pipefail
 float start=$SECONDS end 
 for ((i=0; i < 2; i++))
-do	print foo 2>/dev/null
+do	print foo
 	sleep .15
 done | { read; $bintrue; end=$SECONDS ;}
 (( (SECONDS-start) < .1 )) && err_exit "pipefail not waiting for pipe to finish"
diff --git a/src/cmd/ksh93/tests/builtins.sh b/src/cmd/ksh93/tests/builtins.sh
index 58ed91cff..0fd7a2810 100755
--- a/src/cmd/ksh93/tests/builtins.sh
+++ b/src/cmd/ksh93/tests/builtins.sh
@@ -662,8 +662,8 @@ actual=$(
         ) | true
     } 2>&1
 )
-expect=$': print: I/O error\n1'
-if [[ $actual != *"$expect" ]]
+expect='1'
+if [[ $actual != "$expect" ]]
 then
     err_exit "I/O error not detected: expected $(printf %q "$expect"), got $(printf %q "$actual"))"
 fi
diff --git a/src/cmd/ksh93/tests/coprocess.sh b/src/cmd/ksh93/tests/coprocess.sh
index 1cc473334..fc0dfd7b0 100755
--- a/src/cmd/ksh93/tests/coprocess.sh
+++ b/src/cmd/ksh93/tests/coprocess.sh
@@ -272,7 +272,7 @@ _COSHELL_msgfd=5
 function cop
 {
 	read
-	print ok 2>/dev/null
+	print ok
 }
 
 exp=ok
@@ -348,7 +348,7 @@ wait
 function cop
 {
         read
-        print ok 2>/dev/null
+        print ok
 }
 exp=ok
 cop |&