diff --git a/bzip2recover.rs b/bzip2recover.rs
index fed4a3373..025007c80 100644
--- a/bzip2recover.rs
+++ b/bzip2recover.rs
@@ -347,15 +347,12 @@ fn main_help(program_name: &Path, in_filename: &Path) -> Result<(), Error> {
             );
 
             let mut options = std::fs::File::options();
-            options.write(true).create(true);
+            options.write(true).create_new(true);
 
             #[cfg(unix)]
             #[allow(clippy::unnecessary_cast)]
             options.mode(libc::S_IWUSR as u32 | libc::S_IRUSR as u32);
 
-            #[cfg(unix)]
-            options.custom_flags(libc::O_EXCL);
-
             let Ok(output_file) = options.open(&out_filename) else {
                 eprintln!("{}: can't write `{}'", progname, out_filename.display());
 
diff --git a/test-libbzip2-rs-sys/src/lib.rs b/test-libbzip2-rs-sys/src/lib.rs
index 5df26691e..d53b8b420 100644
--- a/test-libbzip2-rs-sys/src/lib.rs
+++ b/test-libbzip2-rs-sys/src/lib.rs
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@
 use std::{
     ffi::{c_char, c_int, c_void, CStr},
     mem::MaybeUninit,
-    os::fd::{AsRawFd, IntoRawFd},
     path::{Path, PathBuf},
 };
 
@@ -1319,7 +1318,10 @@ mod high_level_interface {
     }
 
     #[test]
+    #[cfg(unix)]
     fn open_and_close() {
+        use std::os::fd::{AsRawFd, IntoRawFd};
+
         let p = std::env::temp_dir().join("open_and_close.bz2");
 
         const RB: *const c_char = b"rb\0".as_ptr().cast::<c_char>();