Is there an equivelent of 'require' for C modules ?

[Lawrie Nichols <lawrien@...>]

I need to be able to load an existing lua C module from within a new C 
module (from within it's luaopen_xxx function). The obvious parallel is 
doing a 'require' in a lua script, but there doesn't (as far as I can 
find) appear to be an equivelent C API.

I guess I could just do a lua_dostring(L,"require 'mymodule'"), but that 
doesn't smell quite right.

Any ideas where I should look ?

Many thanks, Lawrie