diff --git a/delete.go b/delete.go
index fb6f38eddf7..de8cd7ea6d6 100644
--- a/delete.go
+++ b/delete.go
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
-	"syscall"
 	"time"
 
 	"github.com/opencontainers/runc/libcontainer"
@@ -19,7 +18,7 @@ func killContainer(container libcontainer.Container) error {
 	_ = container.Signal(unix.SIGKILL, false)
 	for i := 0; i < 100; i++ {
 		time.Sleep(100 * time.Millisecond)
-		if err := container.Signal(syscall.Signal(0), false); err != nil {
+		if err := container.Signal(unix.Signal(0), false); err != nil {
 			destroy(container)
 			return nil
 		}
diff --git a/kill.go b/kill.go
index 25350f9fcc3..46ea7003b53 100644
--- a/kill.go
+++ b/kill.go
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"strconv"
 	"strings"
-	"syscall"
 
 	"github.com/urfave/cli"
 	"golang.org/x/sys/unix"
@@ -23,7 +22,7 @@ Where "<container-id>" is the name for the instance of the container and
 EXAMPLE:
 For example, if the container id is "ubuntu01" the following will send a "KILL"
 signal to the init process of the "ubuntu01" container:
-	 
+
        # runc kill ubuntu01 KILL`,
 	Flags: []cli.Flag{
 		cli.BoolFlag{
@@ -56,10 +55,10 @@ signal to the init process of the "ubuntu01" container:
 	},
 }
 
-func parseSignal(rawSignal string) (syscall.Signal, error) {
+func parseSignal(rawSignal string) (unix.Signal, error) {
 	s, err := strconv.Atoi(rawSignal)
 	if err == nil {
-		return syscall.Signal(s), nil
+		return unix.Signal(s), nil
 	}
 	sig := strings.ToUpper(rawSignal)
 	if !strings.HasPrefix(sig, "SIG") {
diff --git a/libcontainer/cgroups/fs/apply_raw.go b/libcontainer/cgroups/fs/apply_raw.go
index df83d41c353..59ce5ea6b78 100644
--- a/libcontainer/cgroups/fs/apply_raw.go
+++ b/libcontainer/cgroups/fs/apply_raw.go
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ import (
 	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
 	"sync"
-	"syscall"
 
 	"github.com/opencontainers/runc/libcontainer/cgroups"
 	"github.com/opencontainers/runc/libcontainer/configs"
@@ -118,7 +117,7 @@ func isIgnorableError(rootless bool, err error) bool {
 		return true
 	}
 	// Handle some specific syscall errors.
-	var errno syscall.Errno
+	var errno unix.Errno
 	if errors.As(err, &errno) {
 		return errno == unix.EROFS || errno == unix.EPERM || errno == unix.EACCES
 	}
diff --git a/libcontainer/cgroups/fscommon/fscommon.go b/libcontainer/cgroups/fscommon/fscommon.go
index dc53987e0a2..46e06dc62d3 100644
--- a/libcontainer/cgroups/fscommon/fscommon.go
+++ b/libcontainer/cgroups/fscommon/fscommon.go
@@ -5,11 +5,11 @@ package fscommon
 import (
 	"io/ioutil"
 	"os"
-	"syscall"
 
 	securejoin "github.com/cyphar/filepath-securejoin"
 	"github.com/pkg/errors"
 	"github.com/sirupsen/logrus"
+	"golang.org/x/sys/unix"
 )
 
 func WriteFile(dir, file, data string) error {
@@ -41,20 +41,10 @@ func ReadFile(dir, file string) (string, error) {
 func retryingWriteFile(filename string, data []byte, perm os.FileMode) error {
 	for {
 		err := ioutil.WriteFile(filename, data, perm)
-		if isInterruptedWriteFile(err) {
+		if errors.Is(err, unix.EINTR) {
 			logrus.Infof("interrupted while writing %s to %s", string(data), filename)
 			continue
 		}
 		return err
 	}
 }
-
-func isInterruptedWriteFile(err error) bool {
-	if patherr, ok := err.(*os.PathError); ok {
-		errno, ok2 := patherr.Err.(syscall.Errno)
-		if ok2 && errno == syscall.EINTR {
-			return true
-		}
-	}
-	return false
-}
diff --git a/libcontainer/container_linux.go b/libcontainer/container_linux.go
index d2be68fb178..23484ed2e74 100644
--- a/libcontainer/container_linux.go
+++ b/libcontainer/container_linux.go
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ import (
 	"reflect"
 	"strings"
 	"sync"
-	"syscall" // only for SysProcAttr and Signal
 	"time"
 
 	securejoin "github.com/cyphar/filepath-securejoin"
@@ -309,7 +308,7 @@ func awaitFifoOpen(path string) <-chan openResult {
 func fifoOpen(path string, block bool) openResult {
 	flags := os.O_RDONLY
 	if !block {
-		flags |= syscall.O_NONBLOCK
+		flags |= unix.O_NONBLOCK
 	}
 	f, err := os.OpenFile(path, flags, 0)
 	if err != nil {
@@ -480,7 +479,7 @@ func (c *linuxContainer) commandTemplate(p *Process, childInitPipe *os.File, chi
 	cmd.Stderr = p.Stderr
 	cmd.Dir = c.config.Rootfs
 	if cmd.SysProcAttr == nil {
-		cmd.SysProcAttr = &syscall.SysProcAttr{}
+		cmd.SysProcAttr = &unix.SysProcAttr{}
 	}
 	cmd.Env = append(cmd.Env, fmt.Sprintf("GOMAXPROCS=%s", os.Getenv("GOMAXPROCS")))
 	cmd.ExtraFiles = append(cmd.ExtraFiles, p.ExtraFiles...)
@@ -506,7 +505,7 @@ func (c *linuxContainer) commandTemplate(p *Process, childInitPipe *os.File, chi
 	// PID1 the pdeathsig is being delivered to the container's init process by the kernel for some reason
 	// even with the parent still running.
 	if c.config.ParentDeathSignal > 0 {
-		cmd.SysProcAttr.Pdeathsig = syscall.Signal(c.config.ParentDeathSignal)
+		cmd.SysProcAttr.Pdeathsig = unix.Signal(c.config.ParentDeathSignal)
 	}
 	return cmd
 }
@@ -1005,8 +1004,8 @@ func (c *linuxContainer) Checkpoint(criuOpts *CriuOpts) error {
 			// CRIU expects the information about an external namespace
 			// like this: --external net[<inode>]:<key>
 			// This <key> is always 'extRootNetNS'.
-			var netns syscall.Stat_t
-			err = syscall.Stat(nsPath, &netns)
+			var netns unix.Stat_t
+			err = unix.Stat(nsPath, &netns)
 			if err != nil {
 				return err
 			}
@@ -1857,7 +1856,7 @@ func (c *linuxContainer) isPaused() (bool, error) {
 	data, err := ioutil.ReadFile(filepath.Join(fcg, filename))
 	if err != nil {
 		// If freezer cgroup is not mounted, the container would just be not paused.
-		if os.IsNotExist(err) || errors.Is(err, syscall.ENODEV) {
+		if os.IsNotExist(err) || errors.Is(err, unix.ENODEV) {
 			return false, nil
 		}
 		return false, newSystemErrorWithCause(err, "checking if container is paused")
diff --git a/libcontainer/init_linux.go b/libcontainer/init_linux.go
index c1b1560020e..f7b4b892e7e 100644
--- a/libcontainer/init_linux.go
+++ b/libcontainer/init_linux.go
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ import (
 	"net"
 	"os"
 	"strings"
-	"syscall" // only for Errno
 	"unsafe"
 
 	"golang.org/x/sys/unix"
@@ -455,7 +454,7 @@ func isWaitable(pid int) (bool, error) {
 // isNoChildren returns true if err represents a unix.ECHILD (formerly syscall.ECHILD) false otherwise
 func isNoChildren(err error) bool {
 	switch err := err.(type) {
-	case syscall.Errno:
+	case unix.Errno:
 		if err == unix.ECHILD {
 			return true
 		}
diff --git a/libcontainer/process_linux.go b/libcontainer/process_linux.go
index 51e54acae10..a18cfa572ba 100644
--- a/libcontainer/process_linux.go
+++ b/libcontainer/process_linux.go
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ import (
 	"os/exec"
 	"path/filepath"
 	"strconv"
-	"syscall" // only for Signal
 
 	"github.com/opencontainers/runc/libcontainer/cgroups"
 	"github.com/opencontainers/runc/libcontainer/configs"
@@ -76,7 +75,7 @@ func (p *setnsProcess) startTime() (uint64, error) {
 }
 
 func (p *setnsProcess) signal(sig os.Signal) error {
-	s, ok := sig.(syscall.Signal)
+	s, ok := sig.(unix.Signal)
 	if !ok {
 		return errors.New("os: unsupported signal type")
 	}
@@ -506,7 +505,7 @@ func (p *initProcess) createNetworkInterfaces() error {
 }
 
 func (p *initProcess) signal(sig os.Signal) error {
-	s, ok := sig.(syscall.Signal)
+	s, ok := sig.(unix.Signal)
 	if !ok {
 		return errors.New("os: unsupported signal type")
 	}
diff --git a/libcontainer/standard_init_linux.go b/libcontainer/standard_init_linux.go
index 4e03b8bc058..da478c5959d 100644
--- a/libcontainer/standard_init_linux.go
+++ b/libcontainer/standard_init_linux.go
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ import (
 	"os"
 	"os/exec"
 	"runtime"
-	"syscall" //only for Exec
 
 	"github.com/opencontainers/runc/libcontainer/apparmor"
 	"github.com/opencontainers/runc/libcontainer/configs"
@@ -207,7 +206,7 @@ func (l *linuxStandardInit) Init() error {
 			return newSystemErrorWithCause(err, "init seccomp")
 		}
 	}
-	if err := syscall.Exec(name, l.config.Args[0:], os.Environ()); err != nil {
+	if err := unix.Exec(name, l.config.Args[0:], os.Environ()); err != nil {
 		return newSystemErrorWithCause(err, "exec user process")
 	}
 	return nil
diff --git a/libcontainer/system/linux.go b/libcontainer/system/linux.go
index a4ae8901acc..7548969a6f9 100644
--- a/libcontainer/system/linux.go
+++ b/libcontainer/system/linux.go
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ package system
 import (
 	"os"
 	"os/exec"
-	"syscall" // only for exec
 	"unsafe"
 
 	"github.com/opencontainers/runc/libcontainer/user"
@@ -51,7 +50,7 @@ func Execv(cmd string, args []string, env []string) error {
 		return err
 	}
 
-	return syscall.Exec(name, args, env)
+	return unix.Exec(name, args, env)
 }
 
 func Prlimit(pid, resource int, limit unix.Rlimit) error {
diff --git a/signals.go b/signals.go
index dd25e094ce4..5682989c62c 100644
--- a/signals.go
+++ b/signals.go
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ package main
 import (
 	"os"
 	"os/signal"
-	"syscall" // only for Signal
 
 	"github.com/opencontainers/runc/libcontainer"
 	"github.com/opencontainers/runc/libcontainer/system"
@@ -103,7 +102,7 @@ func (h *signalHandler) forward(process *libcontainer.Process, tty *tty, detach
 			}
 		default:
 			logrus.Debugf("sending signal to process %s", s)
-			if err := unix.Kill(pid1, s.(syscall.Signal)); err != nil {
+			if err := unix.Kill(pid1, s.(unix.Signal)); err != nil {
 				logrus.Error(err)
 			}
 		}