Hi Werner, > Here some text from section 5.2.1 of the kpathsea link. Think of > replacing `texmf.cnf' with grops's `download' file (together with more > fiddling, but I think you get the idea):
Ah, OK. So http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/tree/src/libs/libgroff/searchpath.cpp#n96 currently does the work of searching `path' for `name' but stops at the first successful fopen(3). BTW, I note POSIX defines ftw(3) and nftw(3). Cheers, Ralph.