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Daniel Samson b0f894f50c M9: user-space VFS server + client file API (open/read/write/stat + stdio)
The payoff milestone: files are served by a user-space process, reached over
IPC — the kernel never sees a path or an fd.

- lib/vfs_proto.zig: the VFS wire protocol (Op, Request/Reply fixed header +
  inline payload, Stat), shared by client and server; one message <= MSG_MAX.
- lib/ipc.zig: replyWait() — the server-side dual-return stub (length in rax,
  badge in rdx via a "+{rdx}" read-write operand), deferred from M7.
- sbin/vfs.zig: the real VFS server — an in-heap ramfs (open creates a node)
  with an IPC_ReplyWait dispatch loop serving open/read/write/stat/close.
  Registers its endpoint under the well-known vfs id at startup.
- lib/unistd.zig: POSIX-style client API in rt — a per-process fd table +
  open/close/read/write/lseek/stat, each an IPC_Call to the VFS. The kernel
  knows nothing of fds; the table lives here.
- lib/stdio.zig: C stdio over unistd — FILE + fopen/fclose/fread/fwrite/
  fseek/ftell/rewind/feof/ferror/fputs/fputc/fgetc (unbuffered for now).
- sbin/vfstest.zig: a client that opens/writes/seeks/reads a file and only
  heartbeats "vfstest: ok" if the round trip matched. Packed in the initrd.
- New `vfs` test drives it end to end. initrd test relaxed to generic
  liveness. Suite 31/31.
2026-07-09 07:48:24 +01:00

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//! The VFS wire protocol — the message format spoken between a client (via the
//! `rt` file API) and the user-space VFS server over IPC. A request is a fixed
//! `Request` header followed by an inline payload (a path, or write bytes); a
//! reply is a fixed `Reply` header followed by an inline payload (read bytes, or
//! a Stat). Everything fits in one IPC message (<= ipc MSG_MAX = 256 bytes).
//!
//! This is user-space only — the kernel knows nothing of files or paths; it only
//! moves the bytes. Shared by lib/unistd.zig (client) and sbin/vfs.zig (server).
pub const Op = enum(u32) {
open, // open(path) -> node id
close, // close(node)
read, // read(node, offset, len) -> bytes
write, // write(node, offset, bytes) -> count
stat, // stat(node) -> Stat
};
/// Request header. `node` is the server-side open-file id (from a prior open);
/// for `open` the path is the payload and `len` is its length. `offset`/`len`
/// carry the read/write position and count.
pub const Request = extern struct {
op: Op,
node: u64,
offset: u64,
len: u32,
flags: u32,
};
/// Reply header. `status` is 0 on success or a negative errno; `node` is the new
/// open-file id (for `open`); `len` is the payload length (bytes read, or the
/// Stat size).
pub const Reply = extern struct {
status: i32,
_pad: u32 = 0,
node: u64 = 0,
len: u32 = 0,
_pad2: u32 = 0,
};
pub const Stat = extern struct {
size: u64,
kind: u32,
_pad: u32 = 0,
};
pub const msg_max: usize = 256;
pub const req_size: usize = @sizeOf(Request);
pub const reply_size: usize = @sizeOf(Reply);
/// Largest inline payload that still fits one IPC message alongside a header.
pub const max_payload: usize = msg_max - req_size;
/// Open flags.
pub const O_CREAT: u32 = 1;