Phase 1a: add the native runtime.fs, retire the posix shim

The first step of the Zig self-hosting roadmap (docs/zig-self-hosting.md): give
danos programs a danos-native file API and remove the premature POSIX compatibility
shim. This also resolves the earlier misplacement of a full-write helper into the
compat layer — that behaviour now lives natively in runtime.fs.File.writeAll.

- library/runtime/fs.zig: the danos-native file client over the VFS (open/read/
  write/writeAll/seekTo/attributes/close, directory listing, mount). Handles are
  *values* — a File/Directory owns its VFS node id and byte offset — so there is no
  per-process fd table or descriptor limit, unlike the POSIX fd model the shim
  emulated. This is where the operations that later become std.os.danos are staged.
- Retire library/posix/ (unistd, stdio): only five call sites used it, all file
  operations, all migrated to runtime.fs — fat (mount), the vfs-test and fat-test
  clients, and init/log-flush (the boot-log flush). stdio was already dead.
- build.zig: drop the posix module, its addUserBinary parameter, the per-binary
  import, and the ~26 call-site arguments.
- Docs: the VFS protocol's client is now runtime.fs; the docs index and
  coding-standards note posix is retired and the foreign-ABI naming exception now
  applies to the future std.os.danos seam; the process-lifecycle note points the
  future musl layer at that same seam rather than the deleted directory.

Deferred by design (see the roadmap): the C-ABI runtime.os errno seam is built at
fork time (its shape must match std/os/danos.zig); truncate/mkdir/rename are
Phase 2; stdio-byte fds and cwd are later slices.

Verified: zig build, zig build test, zig build check-fat-image, and a sequential
QEMU sweep — vfs, vfs-client-death (the park/hold-handle path), fat-mount, log-flush,
orderly-shutdown, initial-ramdisk (log-flush silent in the bare sweep), smoke, init,
usb-storage, device-manager — all green.
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@@ -65,15 +65,18 @@ Three, and only three.
`errno`, `O_CREAT`. We don't get to rename `fwrite` to `fileWrite` — it wouldn't be
`fwrite` any more.
**This exception is scoped to one place: `library/posix/`.** A file under
`library/posix/` *is* the foreign ABI, so it keeps the ABI's spellings — that is the
whole rule for that directory. **Everywhere else, Zig/danos naming applies with no
POSIX exception**, so there is nothing to get wrong: if you're not in
`library/posix/`, expand it. A concept POSIX also has gets a danos name outside that
layer — the VFS wire protocol carries a `FileStatus`, not a `Stat`, and a `create`
flag, not `O_CREAT`; `library/posix/` is what maps `stat`→`status` and
`O_CREAT`→`create` at the boundary. (The `syscall` *wrappers* elsewhere are not an
exception to this — they wrap the private danos ABI, so they use danos names.)
**This exception is scoped to a file that *is* a foreign ABI, and nothing else.**
danos has no such file today: the old `library/posix/` compatibility shim was retired
once its callers moved to the danos-native `runtime.fs`, since a hand-rolled POSIX
layer is premature until danos actually needs it (see
[zig-self-hosting.md](zig-self-hosting.md)). The exception will apply again to the
`std.os.danos` seam when danos becomes a real Zig target — that module *is* the C-ABI
`system` interface, so it keeps `open`/`read`/`errno`/`O_CREAT`. **Everywhere else,
Zig/danos naming applies with no exception**: a concept POSIX also has gets a danos
name — the VFS wire protocol carries a `FileStatus`, not a `Stat`, and a `create`
flag, not `O_CREAT`; the boundary is where `stat`→`status` and `O_CREAT`→`create` get
mapped. (The `syscall` *wrappers* elsewhere are not an exception — they wrap the
private danos ABI, so they use danos names.)
2. **Zig idioms are spelled the way Zig spells them.** Three names are the language's,
not ours, and are left alone: