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On Sat, 18 Nov 2006, Stephen Rothwell wrote:

> Is there no suitable header file to put this in?

There is only a single file that uses sighand_cachep apart from where it 
was defined. If we would add it to signal.h then we would also have to
add an include for slab.h just for this statement. I cannot imagine
any reason why one would have to use sighand_cachep outside of those two 
files.