diff --git a/lib/checksrc.whitelist b/lib/checksrc.whitelist
index 9c29cf96d..1ff5f94c5 100644
--- a/lib/checksrc.whitelist
+++ b/lib/checksrc.whitelist
@@ -4,9 +4,5 @@
       150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for [file] (0.0.0.0,0) (545 bytes)
    * no_proxy=domain1.dom,host.domain2.dom
      Default values are (0,0) initialized by calloc.
-  file = fopen(name, "r"); /* VMS */
-    return fopen(file, "r"); /* VMS */
-    return fopen(file, "r", "rfm=stmlf", "ctx=stm");
-    curl_memlog("FILE %s:%d fopen(\"%s\",\"%s\") = %p\n",
            a URL as file://localhost//foo must be valid as well, to refer to
   const char atom_specials[] = "(){ %*]";