Global ignores

Where can I find more complete information on global-ignores and the expected format/syntax of the patterns?

The svnbook just indicates:
The global-ignores option is a list of whitespace-delimited globs which describe the names of files and directories that Subversion should not display unless they are versioned.
The default value is *.o *.lo *.la #*# .*.rej *.rej .*~ *~ .#* .DS_Store

At first I assumed this just performed wild-card matching, but looking at the default list within the config file that was created on my machine (Windows) I see this:

global-ignores = *.o *.lo *.la *.al .libs *.so *.so.[0-9]* *.a *.pyc *.pyo
   *.rej *~ #*# .#* .*.swp .DS_Store

Based on the presence of the "[0-9]" set, I assume something a bit more than just wild-card matching must be performed but apparently something less than full regular expressions...

The wikipedia entry for "glob" indicates this is just a generic term that refers to a limited pattern-matching facility, which seems to vary by programming language or shell, and "there is no definite syntax for globs..."

So, where can I find more complete information on the "glob" syntax that Subversion uses for the global-ignores option, and is it consistent across OSes?
Thanks!

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