diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index b98013e19..a1239702e 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -402,6 +402,7 @@ name = "fish-util"
 version = "0.0.0"
 dependencies = [
  "fish-widestring",
+ "nix",
  "rand",
 ]
 
diff --git a/crates/util/Cargo.toml b/crates/util/Cargo.toml
index d8cfd179c..781e92040 100644
--- a/crates/util/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/util/Cargo.toml
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ license.workspace = true
 
 [dependencies]
 fish-widestring.workspace = true
+nix.workspace = true
 rand.workspace = true
 
 [lints]
diff --git a/crates/util/src/lib.rs b/crates/util/src/lib.rs
index b0b5d3db9..60c444c9b 100644
--- a/crates/util/src/lib.rs
+++ b/crates/util/src/lib.rs
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 use fish_widestring::prelude::*;
 use rand::{SeedableRng as _, rngs::SmallRng};
 use std::cmp::Ordering;
+use std::os::fd::{BorrowedFd, RawFd};
 use std::time;
 
 /// Compares two wide character strings with an (arguably) intuitive ordering. This function tries
@@ -234,6 +235,10 @@ fn wcsfilecmp_leading_digits(a: &wstr, b: &wstr) -> (Ordering, usize, usize) {
     (ret, ai, bi)
 }
 
+pub fn write_to_fd(input: &[u8], fd: RawFd) -> nix::Result<usize> {
+    nix::unistd::write(unsafe { BorrowedFd::borrow_raw(fd) }, input)
+}
+
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod tests {
     use super::wcsfilecmp;
diff --git a/src/flog.rs b/src/flog.rs
index 983063af9..9c269bdc9 100644
--- a/src/flog.rs
+++ b/src/flog.rs
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 use crate::prelude::*;
 use crate::wildcard::wildcard_match;
-use crate::wutil::write_to_fd;
 use crate::{parse_util::unescape_wildcards, wutil::unescape_bytes_and_write_to_fd};
+use fish_util::write_to_fd;
 use fish_wcstringutil::wcs2bytes;
 use libc::c_int;
 use std::sync::atomic::{AtomicI32, Ordering};
diff --git a/src/reader/reader.rs b/src/reader/reader.rs
index 936c8fedd..fb231011c 100644
--- a/src/reader/reader.rs
+++ b/src/reader/reader.rs
@@ -113,13 +113,14 @@
     TtyHandoff, get_tty_protocols_active, initialize_tty_protocols, safe_deactivate_tty_protocols,
 };
 use crate::wildcard::wildcard_has;
-use crate::wutil::{fstat, perror, write_to_fd, wstat};
+use crate::wutil::{fstat, perror, wstat};
 use crate::{abbrs, event, function};
 use assert_matches::assert_matches;
 use errno::{Errno, errno};
 use fish_common::{UTF8_BOM_WCHAR, help_section};
 use fish_fallback::fish_wcwidth;
 use fish_fallback::lowercase;
+use fish_util::write_to_fd;
 use fish_wcstringutil::{
     CaseSensitivity, IsPrefix, StringFuzzyMatch, count_preceding_backslashes, is_prefix,
     join_strings, string_prefixes_string, string_prefixes_string_case_insensitive,
diff --git a/src/wutil/mod.rs b/src/wutil/mod.rs
index 14abd3279..4590e1280 100644
--- a/src/wutil/mod.rs
+++ b/src/wutil/mod.rs
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 use crate::signal::SigChecker;
 use crate::topic_monitor::Topic;
 use errno::errno;
+use fish_util::write_to_fd;
 use fish_wcstringutil::{join_strings, str2bytes_callback, wcs2bytes, wcs2osstring, wcs2zstring};
 use fish_widestring::{IntoCharIter, L, WExt as _, WString, wstr};
 use nix::unistd::AccessFlags;
@@ -351,10 +352,6 @@ pub fn wrename(old_name: &wstr, new_name: &wstr) -> io::Result<()> {
     fs::rename(old_narrow, new_narrow)
 }
 
-pub fn write_to_fd(input: &[u8], fd: RawFd) -> nix::Result<usize> {
-    nix::unistd::write(unsafe { BorrowedFd::borrow_raw(fd) }, input)
-}
-
 /// Write a wide string to a file descriptor. This avoids doing any additional allocation.
 /// Returns nothing when interrupted by ctrl-c or HUP.
 pub fn unescape_bytes_and_write_to_fd(input: impl IntoCharIter, fd: RawFd) -> Option<usize> {