[tex-live] lua path

[Bob Tennent]

I hate to interupt this fascinating (?) discussion about texdoc perl
but my original question remains unanswered (and I don't think it's
stupid). How can I get texlua to search for lua modules in the texmf
forest? kpsewhich finds what I'm looking for but texlua doesn't.
I don't expect "texdoc texlua" to answer my question but I hope
somebody or some documentation I can be pointed to can. It's been
claimed that texlua supports the kpathsea library.

Bob T.