diff --git a/src/bun.js/bindings/c-bindings.cpp b/src/bun.js/bindings/c-bindings.cpp
index f77f9e6bb5..6526c9eb31 100644
--- a/src/bun.js/bindings/c-bindings.cpp
+++ b/src/bun.js/bindings/c-bindings.cpp
@@ -409,7 +409,7 @@ extern "C" void bun_initialize_process()
     // This is less of an issue for macOS due to posix_spawn
     // This is best effort, not all linux kernels support close_range or CLOSE_RANGE_CLOEXEC
     // To avoid breaking --watch, we skip stdin, stdout, stderr and IPC.
-    bun_close_range(0, ~0U, CLOSE_RANGE_CLOEXEC);
+    bun_close_range(4, ~0U, CLOSE_RANGE_CLOEXEC);
 #endif
 
 #if OS(LINUX) || OS(DARWIN)