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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.{
.name = .protocol_conformance_test,
.version = "0.0.0",
.fingerprint = 0xea942427118ba350, // Changing this has security and trust implications.
.minimum_zig_version = "0.16.0",
.dependencies = .{
// build-support supplies the shared recipe; kernel is implicit in
// every binary (the root shim + link script live there). The rest
// are exactly the homes of this binary's declared imports.
.@"build-support" = .{ .path = "../../../../build-support" },
.kernel = .{ .path = "../../../../library/kernel" },
// envelope: the reserved verbs and the errno a refused one answers;
// vfs-protocol: the registry's own readdir, which is where the set
// under test comes from; the four -protocol modules: the name, the
// version and the verb count each contract's `describe` must report,
// read off the contract itself rather than copied beside it.
.protocol = .{ .path = "../../../../library/protocol" },
},
.paths = .{""},
}