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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@@ -252,8 +252,11 @@ pub const klog_maximum_message: usize = 256;
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pub const fs_route_kernel: u64 = 0; // rdx = node token; serve via fs_node
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pub const fs_route_backend: u64 = 1; // rdx = endpoint handle; speak vfs-protocol
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/// fs_node operations — the same numbers as the vfs-protocol Operation enum, so
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/// client code shares one vocabulary.
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/// fs_node operations. These were once the vfs-protocol Operation numbers; the
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/// rebase onto the envelope moved every protocol verb above the reserved range
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/// (16 and up), and these did not follow — they are a *syscall* selector, not a
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/// packet's verb, and renumbering a kernel ABI to track a wire format would be
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/// coupling in the wrong direction. The two vocabularies are simply separate now.
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pub const fs_node_read: u64 = 2;
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pub const fs_node_status: u64 = 4;
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pub const fs_node_readdir: u64 = 5;
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