NVIDIA / NVIDIA/cuda-python

[FEA]: Add `find_nvidia_dynamic_library` to find the DSO location without loading

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Since Jul 18, 2025.

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Description

It’d be nice for path finder to gain a capability find_nvidia_dynamic_library, that only returns the DSO location that the path finder would load, but does not actually load it. cuFile and nvJitLink could use this.

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