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+/**
+ * slibc — Yet another C library
+ * Copyright © 2015 Mattias Andrée (maandree@member.fsf.org)
+ *
+ * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+ * GNU General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ * along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+#include <unistd.h>
+
+
+
+/**
+ * Search the environment variable $PATH for an executable
+ * file whose name is the specified name. Slashes are ignored
+ * and treated as any other character. $PATH is searched
+ * for left to right, and ':' is used as the path-delimiter.
+ *
+ * $PATH is not inspected if `name` starts with './', '../', or '/'.
+ *
+ * This is a Plan 9 from Bell Labs compliant slibc extension.
+ *
+ * @etymology (Search) ($PATH) for an executable.
+ *
+ * @param name The name of the sought executable.
+ * @return The pathname of the sought file, `NULL` on error,
+ * or if not found. Files that are not executable
+ * are (almost) ignored.
+ *
+ * @throws ENOMEM The process cannot allocate enough memory.
+ * @throws ENOENT $PATH is not defined, there are no directories
+ * listed in $PATH, or the sought file is not
+ * exist inside $PATH.
+ * @throws EACCES None of the candidates (with at least one candidate)
+ * are executable by the current user.
+ * @throws Any exception defined for access(3), except for `EROFS`,
+ * these when encountered, the search is aborted, unless
+ * the error is `ENOENT` or `EACCES`.
+ *
+ * @since Always.
+ */
+char* searchpath(const char* name)
+{
+ return searchpath2(name, "");
+}
+