diff --git a/src/fs.rs b/src/fs.rs
index e3547485c..80744d01c 100644
--- a/src/fs.rs
+++ b/src/fs.rs
@@ -340,13 +340,12 @@ fn update_metadata(old_file: &File, new_file: &File) {
 
     /// Renames a file from `old_name` to `new_name`.
     fn rename(old_name: &wstr, new_name: &wstr) -> std::io::Result<()> {
-        if wrename(old_name, new_name) == -1 {
-            let error_number = errno::errno();
+        if let Err(e) = wrename(old_name, new_name) {
             flog!(
                 error,
-                wgettext_fmt!("Error when renaming file: %s", error_number.to_string())
+                wgettext_fmt!("Error when renaming file: %s", e.to_string())
             );
-            return Err(std::io::Error::from(error_number));
+            return Err(e);
         }
         Ok(())
     }
diff --git a/src/wutil/mod.rs b/src/wutil/mod.rs
index 83403617f..afc3a0e00 100644
--- a/src/wutil/mod.rs
+++ b/src/wutil/mod.rs
@@ -345,10 +345,10 @@ pub fn wbasename(mut path: &wstr) -> &wstr {
 }
 
 /// Wide character version of rename.
-pub fn wrename(old_name: &wstr, new_name: &wstr) -> libc::c_int {
-    let old_narrow = wcs2zstring(old_name);
-    let new_narrow = wcs2zstring(new_name);
-    unsafe { libc::rename(old_narrow.as_ptr(), new_narrow.as_ptr()) }
+pub fn wrename(old_name: &wstr, new_name: &wstr) -> io::Result<()> {
+    let old_narrow = wcs2osstring(old_name);
+    let new_narrow = wcs2osstring(new_name);
+    fs::rename(old_narrow, new_narrow)
 }
 
 pub fn write_to_fd(input: &[u8], fd: RawFd) -> nix::Result<usize> {