signal work_available should be sufficient to initiate daisy-chained workers, and lead to separate broadcast work_finished eventually -- NB: broadcasting all worker threads tends to burn parallel CPU cycles;
syntax: glob
*~
*.class
*.jar
*.orig
*.rej
.DS_Store
syntax: regexp
^contrib
^heaps/
^browser_info/
^doc/.*\.dvi
^doc/.*\.eps
^doc/.*\.pdf
^doc/.*\.ps
^src/Tools/jEdit/dist/