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AnachronautandClaude Opus 5 588e02aff5 Double CosmOS's half of the machine, and check that it fits
The memory map gave CosmOS 0x0000 through 0x1FFF of Program Memory and
applications 0x2000 and above. CosmOS is 8141 bytes at the previous commit,
which is fifty one bytes short of the line, and the next thing added to it
went over.

GOING OVER DOES NOT FAIL WHERE IT HAPPENS. Nothing enforces the division: an
application says where it goes with #Base and the loader puts it there, so a
CosmOS that has grown past 0x1FFF simply has the next program loaded written
over the end of it. What breaks is whichever part of the shell that program
happened to cover, at whatever later moment somebody uses it. It turned up here
as the monitor's assemble command answering "I do not know" to valid
instructions, several commands into a session, on a machine that had booted
perfectly well.

Both halves are doubled: applications now start at 0x4000 in Program Memory and
0x2000 in Data Memory. That is 16K of code and 8K of data for the system,
against the 8775 and 2948 it uses today. Both were on the same trajectory, and
moving them together means the twenty files that say #Base are edited once
rather than twice.

The standalone loader's loadable.asm keeps its old base: it belongs to the
loader CosmOS grew out of, not to CosmOS, and its addresses answer to a
different program. The unbased-segment diagnostic keeps its old base too - it
exists to produce an error message that names the address, and the message is
what is recorded.

Tests/docs.sh now reads the two limits out of the table in the README and
measures both segments against them. It reads them rather than being told them
because the table is the specification, and this is the second time in this
project that the thing nobody checked is the thing that rotted.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01E2JrLzFvuFX9fgi1LDRjrW
2026-08-24 22:21:02 -04:00
AnachronautandClaude Opus 5 36a1b07b5b 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
2026-08-24 19:08:26 -04:00