diff --git a/src/uucore/src/lib/features/pipes.rs b/src/uucore/src/lib/features/pipes.rs
index f70beb4734..166c79c416 100644
--- a/src/uucore/src/lib/features/pipes.rs
+++ b/src/uucore/src/lib/features/pipes.rs
@@ -5,12 +5,14 @@
 
 //! Thin zero-copy-related wrappers around functions from the `rustix` crate.
 
+#[cfg(any(target_os = "linux", target_os = "android"))]
+use crate::io::{RawReader, RawWriter};
 #[cfg(any(target_os = "linux", target_os = "android"))]
 use rustix::pipe::{SpliceFlags, fcntl_setpipe_size};
 #[cfg(any(target_os = "linux", target_os = "android"))]
 use std::{
     fs::File,
-    io::{PipeReader, PipeWriter, Read, Write},
+    io::{PipeReader, PipeWriter, Read, copy},
     os::fd::AsFd,
     sync::OnceLock,
 };
@@ -106,11 +108,7 @@ pub fn splice_unbounded(source: &impl AsFd, dest: &mut impl AsFd) -> std::io::Re
 /// This should not be used if one of them are pipe to save resources
 #[inline]
 #[cfg(any(target_os = "linux", target_os = "android"))]
-pub fn splice_unbounded_broker<R, S>(source: &R, dest: &mut S) -> std::io::Result<bool>
-where
-    R: Read + AsFd,
-    S: AsFd,
-{
+pub fn splice_unbounded_broker(source: &impl AsFd, dest: &mut impl AsFd) -> std::io::Result<bool> {
     static PIPE_CACHE: OnceLock<Option<(PipeReader, PipeWriter)>> = OnceLock::new();
     let Some((pipe_rd, pipe_wr)) = PIPE_CACHE
         .get_or_init(|| pipe::<false>(MAX_ROOTLESS_PIPE_SIZE).ok())
@@ -132,12 +130,10 @@ where
                     // If the first splice manages to copy to the intermediate
                     // pipe, but the second splice to stdout fails for some reason
                     // we can recover by copying the data that we have from the
-                    // intermediate pipe to stdout using unbuffered read/write. Then
+                    // intermediate pipe to stdout using read/write. Then
                     // we tell the caller to fall back.
-                    debug_assert!(n <= MAX_ROOTLESS_PIPE_SIZE, "unexpected RAM usage");
-                    let mut drain = Vec::with_capacity(n);
-                    pipe_rd.take(n as u64).read_to_end(&mut drain)?;
-                    crate::io::RawWriter(&dest).write_all(&drain)?;
+                    // This should not be buffered, or order of output would be wrong
+                    copy(&mut pipe_rd.take(n as u64), &mut RawWriter(&dest))?;
                     return Ok(true);
                 }
             }
@@ -150,11 +146,7 @@ where
 /// return actually sent bytes
 #[inline]
 #[cfg(any(target_os = "linux", target_os = "android"))]
-pub fn send_n_bytes(
-    input: impl Read + AsFd,
-    mut target: impl Write + AsFd,
-    n: u64,
-) -> std::io::Result<u64> {
+pub fn send_n_bytes(input: impl AsFd, target: impl AsFd, n: u64) -> std::io::Result<u64> {
     static PIPE_CACHE: OnceLock<Option<(PipeReader, PipeWriter)>> = OnceLock::new();
     let pipe_size = MAX_ROOTLESS_PIPE_SIZE.min(n as usize);
     let mut n = n;
@@ -204,9 +196,7 @@ pub fn send_n_bytes(
                     } else {
                         debug_assert!(s <= MAX_ROOTLESS_PIPE_SIZE, "unexpected RAM usage");
                         // drain pipe before fallback to raw write
-                        let mut drain = Vec::with_capacity(s);
-                        broker_r.take(s as u64).read_to_end(&mut drain)?;
-                        crate::io::RawWriter(&target).write_all(&drain)?;
+                        copy(&mut broker_r.take(s as u64), &mut RawWriter(&target))?;
                         break true;
                     }
                 }
@@ -220,17 +210,8 @@ pub fn send_n_bytes(
     if !fallback {
         return Ok(bytes_written);
     }
-    let mut reader = input.take(n);
-    let mut buf = vec![0u8; (32 * 1024).min(n as usize)]; //use heap to avoid early allocation
-    loop {
-        match reader.read(&mut buf)? {
-            0 => return Ok(bytes_written),
-            n => {
-                target.write_all(&buf[..n])?;
-                bytes_written += n as u64;
-            }
-        }
-    }
+    bytes_written += copy(&mut RawReader(input).take(n), &mut RawWriter(target))?;
+    Ok(bytes_written)
 }
 
 /// Return verified /dev/null