diff --git a/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py b/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py
index 78eee9e988e..43d2f498159 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py
@@ -1264,7 +1264,7 @@ class ProcessTestCase(BaseTestCase):
                                 stdin=subprocess.PIPE,
                                 stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
         with proc, mock.patch.object(proc, 'stdin') as mock_proc_stdin, \
-                open('/dev/null', 'wb') as dev_null:
+                open(os.devnull, 'wb') as dev_null:
             mock_proc_stdin.flush.side_effect = BrokenPipeError
             # because _communicate registers a selector using proc.stdin...
             mock_proc_stdin.fileno.return_value = dev_null.fileno()