library: five protocols speak the envelope
The folded header stops being a rule in a document and becomes the layout on the wire. Verbs number from sixteen, leaving describe, enumerate, subscribe and unsubscribe reserved and answered the same way by every provider — none of them writes a line to do it. What each protocol used to carry in a field of its own now travels in the header: a vfs node and a display layer are the packet's target, and a reply opens with a status the envelope stamps rather than one each protocol spelled for itself. Display gains the most. One forty-byte request had served eleven verbs, so attach_scanout smuggled stride through x, refresh through y and format through colour, and every coordinate crossed as a bitcast. Per-operation structs end all three: the fields have their own names and their own signs, and the tile payload grows to 224 bytes because the prefix shrank. Scanout loses a message maximum of 64 it had no business declaring — it answers calls, and the floor for a call is 256 — and virtio-gpu stops hard-coding that number at its harness. Two changes are semantic rather than notational. A directory now ends at an entry with no name, because the fixed part of a reply always travels and a zero-length reply no longer exists to mean anything. And input joins the service harness, the last loop in the tree that answered no ping and heard no terminate; its subscriber table, its pruning and its fan-out are the same code, and a shutdown now asks it to stop instead of killing it. A new conformance case reads the registry's own listing and asks every protocol it finds for its name, its version and its verb count, then offers a verb nobody defines and requires -ENOSYS — the envelope's promise, checked against providers rather than against itself. What it cannot reach in that boot it names on the serial line instead of passing quietly. Suite 110/110.
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@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ pub fn build(b: *std.Build) void {
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.{ .name = "system-call", .module = system_call },
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.{ .name = "ipc", .module = ipc },
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.{ .name = "vfs-protocol", .module = protocol.module("vfs-protocol") },
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.{ .name = "envelope", .module = protocol.module("envelope") },
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},
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});
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// The channel is the L1 concept made concrete (docs/os-development/communication.md):
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