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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Daniel Samson
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//! DanOS's POSIX / C compatibility layer — `unistd`, `stdio`, and (later) the C
//! `errno` / `struct stat` / `extern "C"` surface. This is the *one* place POSIX and
//! C spellings are allowed to appear verbatim (see docs/coding-standards.md): a file
//! under library/posix/ *is* the foreign ABI, so it keeps the ABI's names. Everything
//! it touches on the danos side (the VFS protocol, the runtime) uses danos names,
//! which this layer translates to at the boundary.
//!
//! It is layered strictly *over* the runtime: it calls the runtime's IPC and heap,
//! never the kernel's system calls directly. danos-native applications use the
//! runtime; this exists so *POSIX* software can too.
pub const unistd = @import("unistd.zig");
pub const stdio = @import("stdio.zig");
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//! A small C stdio layer over the POSIX-style file API (unistd.zig). Unbuffered
//! for now — each fread/fwrite is one VFS round trip; an internal buffer (fewer
//! IPC calls) is a later optimisation. Both a Zig-callable API and `extern "C"`
//! symbols are provided, so Zig and future C programs share it.
const std = @import("std");
const unistd = @import("unistd.zig");
const heap = @import("runtime").heap;
pub const SEEK_SET = unistd.SEEK_SET;
pub const SEEK_CURRENT = unistd.SEEK_CURRENT;
pub const SEEK_END = unistd.SEEK_END;
/// A C `FILE`: an fd plus sticky end-of-file / error flags. Allocated on the
/// heap; `fclose` frees it.
pub const FILE = extern struct {
fd: i32,
eof: c_int = 0,
err: c_int = 0,
};
fn flagsFor(mode: []const u8) u32 {
if (mode.len == 0) return 0;
return switch (mode[0]) {
'w', 'a' => unistd.O_CREAT,
else => 0,
};
}
/// Open `path` in `mode` ("r"/"w"/"a", '+' ignored for now). Returns null on error.
pub fn fopen(path: []const u8, mode: []const u8) ?*FILE {
const fd = unistd.open(path, flagsFor(mode));
if (fd < 0) return null;
const f = heap.allocator().create(FILE) catch {
unistd.close(fd);
return null;
};
f.* = .{ .fd = fd };
if (mode.len > 0 and mode[0] == 'a') _ = unistd.lseek(fd, 0, unistd.SEEK_END);
return f;
}
pub fn fclose(f: *FILE) c_int {
unistd.close(f.fd);
heap.allocator().destroy(f);
return 0;
}
/// Read `size*nmemb` bytes; returns the number of whole items read.
pub fn fread(buffer: []u8, size: usize, nmemb: usize, f: *FILE) usize {
const total = size * nmemb;
if (total == 0) return 0;
const n = unistd.read(f.fd, buffer[0..@min(buffer.len, total)]);
if (n <= 0) {
f.eof = 1;
return 0;
}
return @as(usize, @intCast(n)) / size;
}
/// Write `size*nmemb` bytes; returns the number of whole items written.
pub fn fwrite(data: []const u8, size: usize, nmemb: usize, f: *FILE) usize {
const total = @min(data.len, size * nmemb);
if (total == 0) return 0;
const n = unistd.write(f.fd, data[0..total]);
if (n <= 0) {
f.err = 1;
return 0;
}
return @as(usize, @intCast(n)) / size;
}
pub fn fseek(f: *FILE, off: i64, whence: u32) c_int {
f.eof = 0;
return if (unistd.lseek(f.fd, off, whence) < 0) -1 else 0;
}
pub fn ftell(f: *FILE) i64 {
return unistd.lseek(f.fd, 0, unistd.SEEK_CURRENT);
}
pub fn rewind(f: *FILE) void {
_ = fseek(f, 0, SEEK_SET);
}
pub fn feof(f: *FILE) c_int {
return f.eof;
}
pub fn ferror(f: *FILE) c_int {
return f.err;
}
pub fn fputs(s: []const u8, f: *FILE) c_int {
return if (unistd.write(f.fd, s) < 0) -1 else 0;
}
pub fn fputc(c: u8, f: *FILE) c_int {
const b = [_]u8{c};
return if (unistd.write(f.fd, &b) == 1) c else -1;
}
pub fn fgetc(f: *FILE) c_int {
var b: [1]u8 = undefined;
const n = unistd.read(f.fd, &b);
if (n <= 0) {
f.eof = 1;
return -1; // EOF
}
return b[0];
}
// Real `extern "C"` symbols (fopen/fread/fseek/...) — with a C-string signature
// distinct from the Zig slice API above — land with the first C program, wired
// via @export so they don't collide with these Zig names.
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//! POSIX-style file API for user programs — the low level under C stdio. Files
//! are named objects served by the user-space VFS server (system/services/vfs/vfs.zig); each
//! call marshals a request, IPC_Calls the VFS, and unmarshals the reply. The
//! kernel knows nothing of files or fds — the fd table lives here, per process.
const std = @import("std");
const protocol = @import("vfs-protocol");
const ipc = @import("runtime").ipc;
pub const O_CREAT = protocol.create;
pub const SEEK_SET: u32 = 0;
pub const SEEK_CURRENT: u32 = 1;
pub const SEEK_END: u32 = 2;
// Resolve (and cache) the VFS server endpoint, looked up by well-known id.
var vfs_handle: usize = 0;
var vfs_resolved = false;
fn vfs() ?usize {
if (!vfs_resolved) {
vfs_handle = ipc.lookup(.vfs) orelse return null;
vfs_resolved = true;
}
return vfs_handle;
}
const maximum_fds = 32;
const Fd = struct { used: bool = false, node: u64 = 0, offset: u64 = 0 };
var fds = [_]Fd{.{}} ** maximum_fds;
fn allocFd() ?usize {
for (&fds, 0..) |*f, i| {
if (!f.used) {
f.* = .{ .used = true };
return i;
}
}
return null;
}
const Result = struct { reply: protocol.Reply, payload: []u8 };
/// One request/reply round trip: [Request header][send payload] -> VFS ->
/// [Reply header][receive payload]. The receive payload is written into `out`.
fn transact(request: protocol.Request, send: []const u8, out: []u8) ?Result {
const h = vfs() orelse return null;
var message: [protocol.message_maximum]u8 = undefined;
@memcpy(message[0..protocol.request_size], std.mem.asBytes(&request));
const slen = @min(send.len, protocol.maximum_payload);
@memcpy(message[protocol.request_size..][0..slen], send[0..slen]);
var rbuf: [protocol.message_maximum]u8 = undefined;
const n = ipc.call(h, message[0 .. protocol.request_size + slen], &rbuf) catch return null;
if (n < protocol.reply_size) return null;
const reply = std.mem.bytesToValue(protocol.Reply, rbuf[0..protocol.reply_size]);
const rpl = @min(n - protocol.reply_size, out.len);
@memcpy(out[0..rpl], rbuf[protocol.reply_size..][0..rpl]);
return .{ .reply = reply, .payload = out[0..rpl] };
}
/// Open (or create, with O_CREAT) `path`; returns an fd or -1.
pub fn open(path: []const u8, flags: u32) i32 {
const fd = allocFd() orelse return -1;
const request = protocol.Request{ .operation = .open, .node = 0, .offset = 0, .len = @intCast(path.len), .flags = flags };
const r = transact(request, path, &.{}) orelse {
fds[fd].used = false;
return -1;
};
if (r.reply.status != 0) {
fds[fd].used = false;
return -1;
}
fds[fd] = .{ .used = true, .node = r.reply.node, .offset = 0 };
return @intCast(fd);
}
fn fdPtr(fd: i32) ?*Fd {
if (fd < 0 or fd >= maximum_fds) return null;
const f = &fds[@intCast(fd)];
return if (f.used) f else null;
}
/// Read up to `buffer.len` bytes at the current offset; returns the count or -1.
pub fn read(fd: i32, buffer: []u8) isize {
const f = fdPtr(fd) orelse return -1;
const want: u32 = @intCast(@min(buffer.len, protocol.maximum_payload));
const request = protocol.Request{ .operation = .read, .node = f.node, .offset = f.offset, .len = want, .flags = 0 };
const r = transact(request, &.{}, buffer) orelse return -1;
if (r.reply.status != 0) return -1;
f.offset += r.reply.len;
return @intCast(r.reply.len);
}
/// Write `data` at the current offset; returns the count or -1.
pub fn write(fd: i32, data: []const u8) isize {
const f = fdPtr(fd) orelse return -1;
const want: u32 = @intCast(@min(data.len, protocol.maximum_payload));
const request = protocol.Request{ .operation = .write, .node = f.node, .offset = f.offset, .len = want, .flags = 0 };
const r = transact(request, data[0..want], &.{}) orelse return -1;
if (r.reply.status != 0) return -1;
f.offset += r.reply.len;
return @intCast(r.reply.len);
}
/// Write all of `data`, looping until it is fully written (a single `write` caps
/// each call at the VFS payload size). Returns the total written, or -1 if a
/// underlying write failed before any progress on that chunk.
pub fn writeAll(fd: i32, data: []const u8) isize {
var written: usize = 0;
while (written < data.len) {
const n = write(fd, data[written..]);
if (n <= 0) return if (written == 0) -1 else @intCast(written);
written += @intCast(n);
}
return @intCast(written);
}
/// Reposition the fd's offset. Returns the new offset or -1. (SEEK_END needs the
/// file size, which `stat` provides; handled by fetching it here.)
pub fn lseek(fd: i32, off: i64, whence: u32) i64 {
const f = fdPtr(fd) orelse return -1;
const base: i64 = switch (whence) {
SEEK_SET => 0,
SEEK_CURRENT => @intCast(f.offset),
SEEK_END => blk: {
const request = protocol.Request{ .operation = .status, .node = f.node, .offset = 0, .len = 0, .flags = 0 };
var sbuf: [@sizeOf(protocol.FileStatus)]u8 = undefined;
const r = transact(request, &.{}, &sbuf) orelse return -1;
if (r.reply.status != 0 or r.payload.len < @sizeOf(protocol.FileStatus)) return -1;
const st = std.mem.bytesToValue(protocol.FileStatus, sbuf[0..@sizeOf(protocol.FileStatus)]);
break :blk @intCast(st.size);
},
else => return -1,
};
const pos = base + off;
if (pos < 0) return -1;
f.offset = @intCast(pos);
return pos;
}
/// Stat `path`. Returns 0 or -1.
pub fn stat(path: []const u8, out: *protocol.FileStatus) i32 {
// Open, stat by node, close — simple and enough for now.
const fd = open(path, 0);
if (fd < 0) return -1;
defer close(fd);
const f = fdPtr(fd).?;
const request = protocol.Request{ .operation = .status, .node = f.node, .offset = 0, .len = 0, .flags = 0 };
var sbuf: [@sizeOf(protocol.FileStatus)]u8 = undefined;
const r = transact(request, &.{}, &sbuf) orelse return -1;
if (r.reply.status != 0 or r.payload.len < @sizeOf(protocol.FileStatus)) return -1;
out.* = std.mem.bytesToValue(protocol.FileStatus, sbuf[0..@sizeOf(protocol.FileStatus)]);
return 0;
}
/// Close an fd (best effort — tells the VFS to release the open file).
pub fn close(fd: i32) void {
const f = fdPtr(fd) orelse return;
const request = protocol.Request{ .operation = .close, .node = f.node, .offset = 0, .len = 0, .flags = 0 };
_ = transact(request, &.{}, &.{});
f.used = false;
}
/// Mount a filesystem backend (its server endpoint) at absolute path `target`;
/// the VFS then routes every path under `target` to that backend. Returns 0 or
/// -1. This is the one call that hands the VFS a capability (the backend).
pub fn mount(target: []const u8, backend: usize) i32 {
const h = vfs() orelse return -1;
const request = protocol.Request{ .operation = .mount, .node = 0, .offset = 0, .len = @intCast(target.len), .flags = 0 };
var message: [protocol.message_maximum]u8 = undefined;
@memcpy(message[0..protocol.request_size], std.mem.asBytes(&request));
const tlen = @min(target.len, protocol.maximum_payload);
@memcpy(message[protocol.request_size..][0..tlen], target[0..tlen]);
var rbuf: [protocol.message_maximum]u8 = undefined;
const result = ipc.callCap(h, message[0 .. protocol.request_size + tlen], &rbuf, backend) catch return -1;
if (result.len < protocol.reply_size) return -1;
return if (std.mem.bytesToValue(protocol.Reply, rbuf[0..protocol.reply_size]).status == 0) 0 else -1;
}
/// A directory entry filled by `readdir`.
pub const DirEntry = struct {
kind: u32 = 0, // a protocol.NodeKind
size: u64 = 0,
name_buffer: [64]u8 = undefined,
name_len: usize = 0,
pub fn name(self: *const DirEntry) []const u8 {
return self.name_buffer[0..self.name_len];
}
};
/// Open a directory for reading with `readdir`. Returns an fd or -1.
pub fn opendir(path: []const u8) i32 {
return open(path, protocol.directory);
}
/// Read the next entry of a directory fd into `entry`; returns false at EOF or on
/// error. Advances the fd's cursor by one entry.
pub fn readdir(fd: i32, entry: *DirEntry) bool {
const f = fdPtr(fd) orelse return false;
const request = protocol.Request{ .operation = .readdir, .node = f.node, .offset = f.offset, .len = 0, .flags = 0 };
var buffer: [protocol.message_maximum]u8 = undefined;
const r = transact(request, &.{}, &buffer) orelse return false;
if (r.reply.status != 0 or r.reply.len == 0) return false; // error or EOF
if (r.payload.len < protocol.directory_entry_size) return false;
const header = std.mem.bytesToValue(protocol.DirectoryEntry, r.payload[0..protocol.directory_entry_size]);
entry.kind = header.kind;
entry.size = header.size;
const source = r.payload[protocol.directory_entry_size..];
const nlen = @min(@min(@as(usize, header.name_len), source.len), entry.name_buffer.len);
@memcpy(entry.name_buffer[0..nlen], source[0..nlen]);
entry.name_len = nlen;
f.offset += 1;
return true;
}
/// Close a directory fd (same as `close`).
pub fn closedir(fd: i32) void {
close(fd);
}
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//! runtime.fs — the danos-native file API. A program opens, reads, writes, and
//! lists files served by the user-space VFS (system/services/vfs), each call
//! marshalling a vfs-protocol request over IPC. This is the danos-native layer
//! danos programs use directly; it is also where the file operations that later
//! become `std.os.danos` are staged (see docs/zig-self-hosting.md). It replaces
//! the old POSIX `unistd` shim — a compatibility spelling danos does not need yet.
//!
//! Handles are *values*, not entries in a global descriptor table: a `File` /
//! `Directory` owns its VFS node id and (for files) a byte offset. So there is no
//! per-process fd limit and no shared table to synchronise — the danos-native
//! shape, unlike the POSIX fd model the old shim emulated.
const std = @import("std");
const ipc = @import("ipc.zig");
const protocol = @import("vfs-protocol");
/// The kind of a filesystem node — re-exported so a caller need not import the
/// wire protocol.
pub const Kind = protocol.NodeKind;
/// A node's metadata (the answer to a status request).
pub const Attributes = struct { size: u64, kind: Kind };
// Map a wire `NodeKind` value to the enum, defaulting anything unrecognised to
// `.regular` (the server is trusted, but a value outside the enum would be
// illegal to `@enumFromInt` directly).
fn kindFromWire(value: u32) Kind {
return switch (value) {
@intFromEnum(Kind.directory) => .directory,
@intFromEnum(Kind.character_device) => .character_device,
@intFromEnum(Kind.block_device) => .block_device,
@intFromEnum(Kind.symbolic_link) => .symbolic_link,
@intFromEnum(Kind.fifo) => .fifo,
@intFromEnum(Kind.socket) => .socket,
else => .regular,
};
}
/// How to open a path.
pub const OpenOptions = struct {
/// Create the file if it does not exist.
create: bool = false,
/// Open a directory node (for listing) rather than a file.
directory: bool = false,
fn wireFlags(self: OpenOptions) u32 {
var f: u32 = 0;
if (self.create) f |= protocol.create;
if (self.directory) f |= protocol.directory;
return f;
}
};
// The VFS server endpoint, looked up once by well-known id and cached.
var vfs_handle: ipc.Handle = 0;
var vfs_resolved = false;
fn vfs() ?ipc.Handle {
if (!vfs_resolved) {
vfs_handle = ipc.lookup(.vfs) orelse return null;
vfs_resolved = true;
}
return vfs_handle;
}
const Result = struct { reply: protocol.Reply, payload: []u8 };
// One request/reply round trip: [Request header][send payload] -> VFS ->
// [Reply header][receive payload]. The receive payload lands in `out`.
fn transact(request: protocol.Request, send: []const u8, out: []u8) ?Result {
const h = vfs() orelse return null;
var message: [protocol.message_maximum]u8 = undefined;
@memcpy(message[0..protocol.request_size], std.mem.asBytes(&request));
const slen = @min(send.len, protocol.maximum_payload);
@memcpy(message[protocol.request_size..][0..slen], send[0..slen]);
var rbuf: [protocol.message_maximum]u8 = undefined;
const n = ipc.call(h, message[0 .. protocol.request_size + slen], &rbuf) catch return null;
if (n < protocol.reply_size) return null;
const reply = std.mem.bytesToValue(protocol.Reply, rbuf[0..protocol.reply_size]);
const rpl = @min(n - protocol.reply_size, out.len);
@memcpy(out[0..rpl], rbuf[protocol.reply_size..][0..rpl]);
return .{ .reply = reply, .payload = out[0..rpl] };
}
/// An open file: a VFS node plus a byte cursor. Read and write advance the cursor.
pub const File = struct {
node: u64,
offset: u64 = 0,
/// Read up to `buffer.len` bytes at the current offset; returns the count, or
/// null on error.
pub fn read(self: *File, buffer: []u8) ?usize {
const want: u32 = @intCast(@min(buffer.len, protocol.maximum_payload));
const request = protocol.Request{ .operation = .read, .node = self.node, .offset = self.offset, .len = want, .flags = 0 };
const r = transact(request, &.{}, buffer) orelse return null;
if (r.reply.status != 0) return null;
self.offset += r.reply.len;
return r.reply.len;
}
/// Write `data` at the current offset; returns the count written. A single
/// call is capped at the VFS payload size, so the return may be short — use
/// `writeAll` to write the whole slice. Null on error.
pub fn write(self: *File, data: []const u8) ?usize {
const want: u32 = @intCast(@min(data.len, protocol.maximum_payload));
const request = protocol.Request{ .operation = .write, .node = self.node, .offset = self.offset, .len = want, .flags = 0 };
const r = transact(request, data[0..want], &.{}) orelse return null;
if (r.reply.status != 0) return null;
self.offset += r.reply.len;
return r.reply.len;
}
/// Write all of `data`, looping past the per-call payload cap. Returns the
/// total written, or null if a write failed before any progress.
pub fn writeAll(self: *File, data: []const u8) ?usize {
var written: usize = 0;
while (written < data.len) {
const n = self.write(data[written..]) orelse return if (written == 0) null else written;
if (n == 0) return written; // no forward progress; stop rather than spin
written += n;
}
return written;
}
/// Move the read/write cursor to an absolute byte position.
pub fn seekTo(self: *File, position: u64) void {
self.offset = position;
}
/// This file's metadata.
pub fn attributes(self: *File) ?Attributes {
const request = protocol.Request{ .operation = .status, .node = self.node, .offset = 0, .len = 0, .flags = 0 };
var buffer: [@sizeOf(protocol.FileStatus)]u8 = undefined;
const r = transact(request, &.{}, &buffer) orelse return null;
if (r.reply.status != 0 or r.payload.len < @sizeOf(protocol.FileStatus)) return null;
const status = std.mem.bytesToValue(protocol.FileStatus, buffer[0..@sizeOf(protocol.FileStatus)]);
return .{ .size = status.size, .kind = kindFromWire(status.kind) };
}
/// Release the VFS's open handle for this file.
pub fn close(self: *File) void {
const request = protocol.Request{ .operation = .close, .node = self.node, .offset = 0, .len = 0, .flags = 0 };
_ = transact(request, &.{}, &.{});
}
};
/// Open (or create, with `.create`) `path`. Returns the open file, or null.
pub fn open(path: []const u8, options: OpenOptions) ?File {
const request = protocol.Request{ .operation = .open, .node = 0, .offset = 0, .len = @intCast(path.len), .flags = options.wireFlags() };
const r = transact(request, path, &.{}) orelse return null;
if (r.reply.status != 0) return null;
return .{ .node = r.reply.node };
}
/// A path's metadata without keeping it open (open -> status -> close).
pub fn attributes(path: []const u8) ?Attributes {
var file = open(path, .{}) orelse return null;
defer file.close();
return file.attributes();
}
/// Whether `path` resolves — handy as a readiness check (e.g. waiting for a mount
/// to come up before writing to it).
pub fn exists(path: []const u8) bool {
return attributes(path) != null;
}
/// One entry returned by `Directory.next`.
pub const Entry = struct {
kind: Kind = .regular,
size: u64 = 0,
name_buffer: [64]u8 = undefined,
name_len: usize = 0,
pub fn name(self: *const Entry) []const u8 {
return self.name_buffer[0..self.name_len];
}
};
/// An open directory being listed, cursor-advanced by `next`.
pub const Directory = struct {
node: u64,
cursor: u64 = 0,
/// Fill `entry` with the next directory entry; false at end of directory or
/// on error.
pub fn next(self: *Directory, entry: *Entry) bool {
const request = protocol.Request{ .operation = .readdir, .node = self.node, .offset = self.cursor, .len = 0, .flags = 0 };
var buffer: [protocol.message_maximum]u8 = undefined;
const r = transact(request, &.{}, &buffer) orelse return false;
if (r.reply.status != 0 or r.reply.len == 0) return false; // error or EOF
if (r.payload.len < protocol.directory_entry_size) return false;
const header = std.mem.bytesToValue(protocol.DirectoryEntry, r.payload[0..protocol.directory_entry_size]);
entry.kind = kindFromWire(header.kind);
entry.size = header.size;
const source = r.payload[protocol.directory_entry_size..];
const nlen = @min(@min(@as(usize, header.name_len), source.len), entry.name_buffer.len);
@memcpy(entry.name_buffer[0..nlen], source[0..nlen]);
entry.name_len = nlen;
self.cursor += 1;
return true;
}
/// Release the VFS's open handle for this directory.
pub fn close(self: *Directory) void {
var f = File{ .node = self.node };
f.close();
}
};
/// Open `path` as a directory for listing. Returns null if it isn't one / on error.
pub fn openDirectory(path: []const u8) ?Directory {
const file = open(path, .{ .directory = true }) orelse return null;
return .{ .node = file.node };
}
/// Mount a filesystem backend (its server endpoint) at absolute path `target`;
/// the VFS then routes everything under `target` to that backend. This is the one
/// call that hands the VFS a capability (the backend endpoint). Returns true on
/// success.
pub fn mount(target: []const u8, backend: ipc.Handle) bool {
const h = vfs() orelse return false;
const request = protocol.Request{ .operation = .mount, .node = 0, .offset = 0, .len = @intCast(target.len), .flags = 0 };
var message: [protocol.message_maximum]u8 = undefined;
@memcpy(message[0..protocol.request_size], std.mem.asBytes(&request));
const tlen = @min(target.len, protocol.maximum_payload);
@memcpy(message[protocol.request_size..][0..tlen], target[0..tlen]);
var rbuf: [protocol.message_maximum]u8 = undefined;
const result = ipc.callCap(h, message[0 .. protocol.request_size + tlen], &rbuf, backend) catch return false;
if (result.len < protocol.reply_size) return false;
return std.mem.bytesToValue(protocol.Reply, rbuf[0..protocol.reply_size]).status == 0;
}
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@@ -46,6 +46,11 @@ pub const usb = @import("usb.zig");
/// usb-storage). See library/runtime/block.zig.
pub const block = @import("block.zig");
/// The danos-native file API (open/read/write/list over the user-space VFS) — the
/// layer danos programs use directly, and where the operations that later become
/// `std.os.danos` are staged. See docs/zig-self-hosting.md.
pub const fs = @import("fs.zig");
/// Re-exported so a user binary can `pub const panic = runtime.panic;`.
pub const panic = start.panic;