diff --git a/crates/common/src/lib.rs b/crates/common/src/lib.rs
index 031901b8e..960c3f9cf 100644
--- a/crates/common/src/lib.rs
+++ b/crates/common/src/lib.rs
@@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ fn read_to_end_interruptible(&mut self, buf: &mut Vec<u8>) -> std::io::Result<()
 
 /// A rusty port of the C++ `write_loop()` function from `common.cpp`. This should be deprecated in
 /// favor of native rust read/write methods at some point.
-pub fn safe_write_loop<Fd: AsRawFd>(fd: &Fd, buf: &[u8]) -> std::io::Result<()> {
+pub fn write_loop<Fd: AsRawFd>(fd: &Fd, buf: &[u8]) -> std::io::Result<()> {
     let fd = fd.as_raw_fd();
     let mut total = 0;
     while total < buf.len() {
@@ -232,8 +232,6 @@ pub fn safe_write_loop<Fd: AsRawFd>(fd: &Fd, buf: &[u8]) -> std::io::Result<()>
     Ok(())
 }
 
-pub use safe_write_loop as write_loop;
-
 pub const fn help_section_exists(section: &str) -> bool {
     let haystack = include_str!("../../../share/help_sections");
     let needle = section;
diff --git a/src/tty_handoff.rs b/src/tty_handoff.rs
index 88031c227..740d2eea4 100644
--- a/src/tty_handoff.rs
+++ b/src/tty_handoff.rs
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 };
 use crate::threads::assert_is_main_thread;
 use crate::wutil::{perror_nix, wcstoi};
-use fish_common::{safe_write_loop, write_loop};
+use fish_common::write_loop;
 use fish_util::perror;
 use libc::{EINVAL, ENOTTY, EPERM, STDIN_FILENO, WNOHANG};
 use nix::sys::termios::tcgetattr;
@@ -336,7 +336,7 @@ pub fn safe_deactivate_tty_protocols() {
 
     let commands = protocols.safe_get_commands(false);
     // Safety: just writing data to stdout.
-    let _ = safe_write_loop(&libc::STDOUT_FILENO, commands);
+    let _ = write_loop(&libc::STDOUT_FILENO, commands);
     TTY_PROTOCOLS_ACTIVE.store(false, Ordering::Release);
 }