diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 2e4ab310..47ff38d9 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -383,7 +383,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "clap 2.34.0",
  "faccess",
  "filetime",
- "nix 0.26.2",
+ "nix",
  "once_cell",
  "onig",
  "predicates",
@@ -604,35 +604,12 @@ version = "2.4.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "b16bd47d9e329435e309c58469fe0791c2d0d1ba96ec0954152a5ae2b04387dc"
 
-[[package]]
-name = "memoffset"
-version = "0.7.1"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "5de893c32cde5f383baa4c04c5d6dbdd735cfd4a794b0debdb2bb1b421da5ff4"
-dependencies = [
- "autocfg",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "minimal-lexical"
 version = "0.2.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "68354c5c6bd36d73ff3feceb05efa59b6acb7626617f4962be322a825e61f79a"
 
-[[package]]
-name = "nix"
-version = "0.26.2"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "bfdda3d196821d6af13126e40375cdf7da646a96114af134d5f417a9a1dc8e1a"
-dependencies = [
- "bitflags 1.3.2",
- "cfg-if",
- "libc",
- "memoffset",
- "pin-utils",
- "static_assertions",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "nix"
 version = "0.27.1"
@@ -939,12 +916,6 @@ version = "1.8.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "f2dd574626839106c320a323308629dcb1acfc96e32a8cba364ddc61ac23ee83"
 
-[[package]]
-name = "static_assertions"
-version = "1.1.0"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "a2eb9349b6444b326872e140eb1cf5e7c522154d69e7a0ffb0fb81c06b37543f"
-
 [[package]]
 name = "strsim"
 version = "0.8.0"
@@ -1089,7 +1060,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "dunce",
  "glob",
  "libc",
- "nix 0.27.1",
+ "nix",
  "once_cell",
  "os_display",
  "time",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 8448e583..169f6a96 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ uucore = { version = "0.0.22", features = ["entries", "fs", "fsext", "mode"] }
 [dev-dependencies]
 assert_cmd = "2"
 filetime = "0.2"
-nix = "0.26"
+nix = "0.27"
 predicates = "3"
 serial_test = "2.0"
 tempfile = "3"