D4: the machine makes directories too

mkdir and rmdir are the machine's own now, and a file goes where its path says
rather than always in the root. A disk can be organised without the host tool
touching it.

Everything below the surface works in terms of a directory and a name rather
than a path. sbfsWalkParent splits the last name off, walks the rest, and hands
back the two - and the separator stays on the end of the head, which is what
makes one rule cover every kind of path: "/x" leaves "/", which is the root;
"x" leaves nothing, which is where the machine already is; and "A/x" leaves
"A/", which is neither and needs no special case to say so.

Saving works in those two as well, and had to. The careful order a save uses -
make a temporary, write it, delete the original, rename the temporary - only
works if the temporary is made in the SAME directory as the file, because the
rename at the end changes a name and does not move anything. Renaming to a path
naming a different directory is refused for that reason, rather than quietly
being a lie the disk goes along with.

Three things this cost, all found by running it:

mkdir Apps/Deep made /Apps/Apps. The leaf was worked out into SbfsWanted and
then the head was walked - and walking goes through sbfsPathNext, which puts
every name it meets into SbfsWanted on the way past. The head's last name
landed exactly where the leaf was. It has somewhere of its own now.

rmdir took a directory with something still in it, which is the one failure the
whole design is arranged to prevent. Looking for children clobbered DP2 and
rebuilt it from the buffer and the entry count with the subtraction the wrong
way round, so the pointer walked off the end of the block and found nothing.
The comparison goes through a CALL now, like the two beside it, and DP2 comes
back on the entry because a RET puts it there. SplitDisk's "in use but not
reachable from the root" line is what caught it.

Refusing a name longer than twenty two used to read the twenty third character
of a shorter one, which is somebody else's string. It is measured now.

Tests/agree.sh is new and is the gate this rung was for: the same disk built
twice, once with SplitDisk and once with CosmOS, compared byte for byte. The
two share no code and only a written specification, and every field one writes
and the other only reads is checked there and nowhere else - which entry a
thing lands in, which block, what a directory's unused fields hold, the
version, the free count. It caught a wrong parent immediately when that was
broken on purpose.

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@@ -187,13 +187,14 @@ The disk images tests read from are built first by `Tests/makedisks.sh`, using S
test that reads one is therefore checked against a filesystem written by different code from
the same written specification, rather than against itself.
`Tests/run.sh` drives that comparison. Four more scripts run alongside it, and each exists
`Tests/run.sh` drives that comparison. Five more scripts run alongside it, and each exists
because a recorded file cannot answer its question:
- **`Tests/disk.sh`** checks the disk tool on its own: files of every awkward size onto an image and off again, and the things the format says cannot happen refused rather than half done.
- **`Tests/terminal.sh`** checks what a recorded file cannot see. Piped output is buffered and flushed at exit, so a prompt shown before its answer is asked for and one shown an hour late produce identical files; and key mode only touches a terminal when there is one. Both have gone wrong here, and both were found by a person whose terminal stopped working rather than by anything in this suite. So it runs the emulator under a pseudo-terminal and asks directly: that a prompt arrives before input is read, that a keystroke arrives without Return, that the terminal is handed back however the machine dies, and that suspending and resuming leave it as they found it.
- **`Tests/native.sh`** checks the assembler that runs on SplitBit against the one that runs on the host, byte for byte, on a boot image and four loadable programs, and then on CosmOS and on itself, and then on the CosmOS that CosmOS built.
- **`Tests/docs.sh`** checks the manuals against the code: that every instruction has a row and every row is an instruction, that the counts in the headings are right, that every directive is written down, that every service the system implements is described and every service described is implemented, that every routine the manuals promise exists, and that the worked examples still assemble to the bytes printed beside them.
- **`Tests/agree.sh`** checks the two implementations of SBFS against each other rather than each against itself, by building the same disk with SplitDisk and with CosmOS and comparing the images byte for byte. Every field one of them writes and the other only reads is checked there and nowhere else.
- **`Tests/docs.sh`** checks the manuals against the code: that every instruction has a row and every row is an instruction, that the counts in the headings are right, that every directive is written down, that every service the system implements is described and every service described is implemented, that every routine the manuals promise exists, that CosmOS still fits in the half of the machine its memory map gives it, and that the worked examples still assemble to the bytes printed beside them.
A cycle count is deliberately **not** part of a recorded result. The last line of the emulator's output has the number taken out before anything is compared, keeping only whether the program stopped on its own or ran into its limit, which is behaviour. Two instructions added to CosmOS used to move that number in six unrelated files at once, so a real difference would have arrived in a crowd of meaningless ones. Anything that wants to measure cycles should say so in a test of its own.