diff --git a/unix/unix.h b/unix/unix.h
index d43e0ae0..79a9fb3c 100644
--- a/unix/unix.h
+++ b/unix/unix.h
@@ -157,6 +157,7 @@ void cloexec(int);
 void noncloexec(int);
 int nonblock(int);
 int no_nonblock(int);
+char *make_dir_and_check_ours(const char *dirname);
 
 /*
  * Exports from unicode.c.
diff --git a/unix/uxmisc.c b/unix/uxmisc.c
index 473aa94e..95133a03 100644
--- a/unix/uxmisc.c
+++ b/unix/uxmisc.c
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 #include <time.h>
 #include <sys/time.h>
 #include <sys/types.h>
+#include <sys/stat.h>
 #include <pwd.h>
 
 #include "putty.h"
@@ -281,3 +282,34 @@ FontSpec *fontspec_deserialise(void *vdata, int maxsize, int *used)
     *used = end - data + 1;
     return fontspec_new(data);
 }
+
+char *make_dir_and_check_ours(const char *dirname)
+{
+    struct stat st;
+
+    /*
+     * Create the directory. We might have created it before, so
+     * EEXIST is an OK error; but anything else is doom.
+     */
+    if (mkdir(dirname, 0700) < 0 && errno != EEXIST)
+        return dupprintf("%s: mkdir: %s", dirname, strerror(errno));
+
+    /*
+     * Now check that that directory is _owned by us_ and not writable
+     * by anybody else. This protects us against somebody else
+     * previously having created the directory in a way that's
+     * writable to us, and thus manipulating us into creating the
+     * actual socket in a directory they can see so that they can
+     * connect to it and use our authenticated SSH sessions.
+     */
+    if (stat(dirname, &st) < 0)
+        return dupprintf("%s: stat: %s", dirname, strerror(errno));
+    if (st.st_uid != getuid())
+        return dupprintf("%s: directory owned by uid %d, not by us",
+                         dirname, st.st_uid);
+    if ((st.st_mode & 077) != 0)
+        return dupprintf("%s: directory has overgenerous permissions %03o"
+                         " (expected 700)", dirname, st.st_mode & 0777);
+
+    return NULL;
+}
diff --git a/unix/uxshare.c b/unix/uxshare.c
index 3da52def..9279a049 100644
--- a/unix/uxshare.c
+++ b/unix/uxshare.c
@@ -42,37 +42,6 @@ static char *make_parentdir_name(void)
     return parent;
 }
 
-static char *make_dir_and_check_ours(const char *dirname)
-{
-    struct stat st;
-
-    /*
-     * Create the directory. We might have created it before, so
-     * EEXIST is an OK error; but anything else is doom.
-     */
-    if (mkdir(dirname, 0700) < 0 && errno != EEXIST)
-        return dupprintf("%s: mkdir: %s", dirname, strerror(errno));
-
-    /*
-     * Now check that that directory is _owned by us_ and not writable
-     * by anybody else. This protects us against somebody else
-     * previously having created the directory in a way that's
-     * writable to us, and thus manipulating us into creating the
-     * actual socket in a directory they can see so that they can
-     * connect to it and use our authenticated SSH sessions.
-     */
-    if (stat(dirname, &st) < 0)
-        return dupprintf("%s: stat: %s", dirname, strerror(errno));
-    if (st.st_uid != getuid())
-        return dupprintf("%s: directory owned by uid %d, not by us",
-                         dirname, st.st_uid);
-    if ((st.st_mode & 077) != 0)
-        return dupprintf("%s: directory has overgenerous permissions %03o"
-                         " (expected 700)", dirname, st.st_mode & 0777);
-
-    return NULL;
-}
-
 static char *make_dirname(const char *pi_name, char **logtext)
 {
     char *name, *parentdirname, *dirname, *err;