Re: Pattern change

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> I'm about to commit the change suggested by Bart that treats the test string for
> pattern matching by length instead of assuming null termination.

This is now committed.

> Pattern matching still uses memory allocation internally in two places.  First, it
> uses it to copy in the start of the path for ~-exclusion.  This can probably be
> moved further up by using appropriate flags.

Fixed this in the meanwhile, too.

I can see how to improve the other case, but it makes it yet more complicated, so
I'm not sure it's worth it.

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