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Version: 1.1

Author:

Thomas Wolf (TW) <twolf AT acm DOT org>

Purpose:

An instantiation of the wildcard matches that mimics Unix-style wildcard matching.

Tasking Semantics

Neither task- nor abortion-safe.

Storage Semantics

No dynamic storage allocation.