D2: the machine walks a path

sbfsFind takes a path where it used to take a name: names with '/' between
them, walked from the root, with '.' and '..'. Each name is looked for among
the entries whose parent is where the walk has got to. A bare name is a path of
one name, so everything written before directories existed still works and
still costs one walk of the directory.

sbfsMount takes either version. On a version one disk every entry has zeroes
where a parent goes and the walk starts at zero, so the comparison always
agrees - which is how a flat disk reads correctly here with nothing done to it.

PROGRAMS DID NOT HAVE TO BE TAUGHT ANY OF THIS. Resolution sits inside
sbfsFind, below the services, so every osFile call keeps its signature and a
path is simply a longer name. Type, More, Edit and the assembler gained
subdirectories without a line changing in any of them.

Four things this turned up, none of which was the path walk:

load copied the path into a buffer sized for a NAME, so anything over 22
characters was cut short - and cut short into a path that often still resolved.
"/Apps/Deep/../../Apps/Say.sbx" became "/Apps/Deep/../../Apps/" and reported
that the program was a directory. That is the whole of what looked like a bug
in '..', and it cost most of the time here.

load on a directory SUCCEEDED. A directory has no blocks, so reading it reads
nothing and leaves the staging area holding whatever was staged last - which,
if that was a program, still says SBEX and still has a working entry address.
It handed back the program before it. Refused outright now.

delete and rename on a directory are refused, and save refuses one up front
rather than failing at the rename and leaving a temporary behind. Deleting a
directory frees an entry index, and a parent IS an index, so the next file
created would take it and inherit the children.

create writes the parent rather than leaving it zero by luck. It would be zero
- delete wipes all thirty two bytes and a fresh entry never had any - but that
is a fact about two other routines, and a file appearing inside a directory it
was never put in is not a failure anybody would think to look for.

dir marks directories and counts them apart from files, because at this point
it was calling them files of no bytes.

Two hazards written down in the design note turned out not to be real, and both
were checked rather than argued about:

The lookup cache holding 22 bytes of a longer path cannot hand back the wrong
file - textSame wants both strings to end in the same place, so a cut down
entry misses. It can never HIT either, though, so every path longer than a name
went to the disk every time; it holds a whole path now.

The allocator stepping over directories changes nothing any test can see. A
directory has no start as well as no blocks, so its bounds are nought to nought
and no candidate begins before it ends. The four instructions stay, with a
comment saying they are not load bearing today and why they are there anyway.

makedisks.sh resolves its build path before it cds. Given a relative one it
carried on and quietly built disks missing some of their files, which is how
the tree fixture lost a file and sent me looking for a bug in '..'.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01E2JrLzFvuFX9fgi1LDRjrW
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> Apps <dir>
Deep <dir>
Say.sbx 155
Say.sbx 52
rooted.txt 21
3 files, 2 directories
> loaded, starting at 2000
> it says: the shallow one
finished
> loaded, starting at 2000
> Hello, World!
finished
> loaded, starting at 2000
> it says: the shallow one again
finished
> loaded, starting at 2000
> Hello, World!
finished
> no such file
> no such file
> that is a directory
> no such file
> no such file
> no such file
> that is a directory
> gone
> Apps <dir>
Deep <dir>
Say.sbx 155
rooted.txt 21
2 files, 2 directories
> halted
Execution halted.
[exit 0]