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AnachronautandClaude Opus 5 8631a78229 Backspace, whatever the terminal calls it
CosmOS's line editor looks for 0x08, which is what Voyager's keyboard
sends. A POSIX terminal sends its own erase character instead, and on
most of them that is 0x7F.

It stayed hidden while the terminal was doing the editing: canonical
mode consumes the erase character itself and hands over a finished
line. Key mode turns ICANON off, which is the point of it, so from the
day the shell started editing its own line - 7360374 - Backspace worked
in Voyager and did nothing at all in the console-only emulator. The
Programming Manual already claimed the console normalised Backspace on a
terminal the way it normalises the arrow keys; the code did not.

The erase character is read from the terminal's own VERASE rather than
assumed to be 0x7F, because some terminals are set to 0x08 and a person
who has moved their erase key has said where it is. Forward Delete is
untouched and stays 0x86: two keys, two values.

Only when standard input really is a terminal. A file or a pipe holding
0x7F holds a byte somebody wrote, not a key somebody pressed.

Three checks in terminal.sh under a pseudo-terminal whose VERASE is set
on the slave side: erase at 0x7F arrives as Backspace, erase at 0x08
still does, and a 0x7F read from a file is left alone. The last one is
what fails on the obvious wrong fix of translating 0x7F unconditionally,
which was verified with break.sh along with the fix's removal.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01E2JrLzFvuFX9fgi1LDRjrW
2026-09-05 11:56:17 -04:00

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#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Checks the things a recorded output cannot see.
#
# Every other test in this suite pipes standard input in and standard output to a file, and
# compares what came out against what came out last time. That answers "what does this
# program print", which is the right question almost always, and it is blind to two whole
# classes of behaviour:
#
# WHEN something is printed. Piped output is fully buffered and flushed when the process
# ends, so a prompt that appears before input is read and a prompt that appears an hour
# later produce byte-identical files. A prompt printed after the answer it was asking for
# is invisible to every other test here.
#
# WHAT HAPPENS TO THE TERMINAL. Key mode only touches a terminal when there is one, so
# with input from a file there is nothing to put into another state and nothing to put
# back. A machine that leaves the terminal without echo passes all 92 other tests.
#
# Both of those have gone wrong in this repository, and both were found by a person whose
# terminal stopped working rather than by anything here. So this runs the emulator under a
# pseudo-terminal, which is what makes those questions askable at all.
#
# Written by Anachronaut
set -u
ROOT="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")/.." && pwd)"
cd "$ROOT" || exit 1
BUILD="$ROOT/Tests/build/terminal"
mkdir -p "$BUILD"
[ -x "$ROOT/SplitBit" ] || { echo "The emulator is not built."; exit 1; }
[ -x "$ROOT/Assembler" ] || { echo "The assembler is not built."; exit 1; }
# A program that asks for key mode and then waits for a key that never comes. Every check
# below needs a machine that is sitting in key mode with the terminal in its hands.
cat > "$BUILD/keywait.asm" <<'ASM'
#Program
start:
INIA 0x01
OUTA 0x02
INA 0x00
HALT
ASM
# A program that prints something with no newline after it and then waits, which is the
# shape of a prompt and the shape the buffering problem hides in.
cat > "$BUILD/prompt.asm" <<'ASM'
#Program
start:
INIA 0d62 ; '>'
OUTA 0x00
INIA 0x20
OUTA 0x00
INA 0x00
HALT
ASM
"$ROOT/Assembler" "$BUILD/keywait.asm" -o "$BUILD/keywait.bin" >/dev/null 2>&1 || {
echo "Could not assemble the terminal test programs."; exit 1; }
# ---- And a program that says which key it was given ----
#
# A terminal sends ESC [ A for the Up key and the console turns that into one byte of its
# own. NOTHING BUT A REAL TERMINAL CAN TEST THAT: the translation deliberately happens only
# when standard input is one, so every recorded test in the suite - which feed a file - goes
# straight past it and would pass against a console that translated nothing at all.
#
# It prints a letter per key rather than the byte, because the bytes are not printable and
# a recorded escape byte is no easier to read than the sequence it came from.
cat > "$BUILD/escape.asm" <<'ASM'
#Program
start:
INIA 0x01
OUTA 0x02 ; Key mode, or the terminal holds everything until Return.
CALL show
CALL show
CALL show
RSTA
OUTA 0x02
HALT
; One key, named. XOR leaves the answer in Q and A alone, so one read stands for the ladder.
show:
INA 0x00
INIB 0x80
XOR
BRQ showUp
INIB 0x82
XOR
BRQ showLeft
INIB 0x86
XOR
BRQ showDelete
INIB 0x08
XOR
BRQ showBack
INIB 0x1B
XOR
BRQ showEscape
INIA 0x3F ; '?', for anything else.
OUTA 0x00
RET
showUp:
INIA 0x55 ; 'U'
OUTA 0x00
RET
showLeft:
INIA 0x4C ; 'L'
OUTA 0x00
RET
showDelete:
INIA 0x44 ; 'D'
OUTA 0x00
RET
showBack:
INIA 0x42 ; 'B'
OUTA 0x00
RET
showEscape:
INIA 0x45 ; 'E'
OUTA 0x00
RET
ASM
"$ROOT/Assembler" "$BUILD/escape.asm" -o "$BUILD/escape.bin" >/dev/null 2>&1 || {
echo "Could not assemble the terminal test programs."; exit 1; }
"$ROOT/Assembler" "$BUILD/prompt.asm" -o "$BUILD/prompt.bin" >/dev/null 2>&1 || {
echo "Could not assemble the terminal test programs."; exit 1; }
# And the one that waits. Assembled from the repository rather than written inline, because
# it is a real test program that run.sh also runs - there it proves the machine wakes up at
# all, and here it proves it was asleep.
"$ROOT/Assembler" "$ROOT/Programs/testPrograms/timerBeatTest.asm" \
-o "$BUILD/timerBeatTest.bin" >/dev/null
"$ROOT/Assembler" "$ROOT/Programs/testPrograms/waitTest.asm" -o "$BUILD/waitTest.bin" \
>/dev/null 2>&1 || { echo "Could not assemble waitTest."; exit 1; }
"$ROOT/SplitDisk" format "$BUILD/wait.img" 32 1 >/dev/null 2>&1 || {
echo "Could not make the disk waitTest reads."; exit 1; }
python3 - "$ROOT" "$BUILD" <<'PY'
import os
import pty
import select
import termios
import signal
import re
import subprocess
import sys
import time
root, build = sys.argv[1], sys.argv[2]
emulator = os.path.join(root, "SplitBit")
passed = 0
problems = []
def report(ok, what, detail=""):
global passed
if ok:
passed += 1
print(" [ok ] %s" % what)
else:
problems.append(what if not detail else "%s: %s" % (what, detail))
print(" [FAIL] %s%s" % (what, (" - " + detail) if detail else ""))
def underPty(script, seconds=10):
"""Runs a shell script with a pseudo-terminal for its controlling terminal, and
gives back everything the terminal saw."""
pid, fd = pty.fork()
if pid == 0:
os.execv("/bin/bash", ["/bin/bash", "-c", script])
seen = b""
end = time.time() + seconds
while time.time() < end:
ready, _, _ = select.select([fd], [], [], 0.2)
if ready:
try:
chunk = os.read(fd, 4096)
except OSError:
break
if not chunk:
break
seen += chunk
if os.waitpid(pid, os.WNOHANG)[0]:
break
try:
os.kill(pid, signal.SIGKILL)
except ProcessLookupError:
pass
try:
os.waitpid(pid, 0)
except ChildProcessError:
pass
os.close(fd)
return seen
# ---- A prompt is shown before the answer to it is asked for ----
#
# The machine writes "> " and then waits. Nothing more will ever be printed, so if the two
# characters have not arrived after a second of waiting, they are sitting in a buffer and
# the person at the terminal is looking at nothing and being asked to answer it.
#
# This is exactly the bug that getchar used to hide: reading through stdio flushed the line
# buffered streams first, and reading with read() does not.
pid, fd = pty.fork()
if pid == 0:
os.execv(emulator, [emulator, "--fast", os.path.join(build, "prompt.bin")])
seen = b""
end = time.time() + 1.5
while time.time() < end:
ready, _, _ = select.select([fd], [], [], 0.2)
if ready:
try:
seen += os.read(fd, 1024)
except OSError:
break
report(b">" in seen, "a prompt is shown before its answer is read",
"" if b">" in seen else "nothing arrived in 1.5s, so it is stuck in a buffer")
try:
os.kill(pid, signal.SIGKILL)
os.waitpid(pid, 0)
except (ProcessLookupError, ChildProcessError):
pass
os.close(fd)
# ---- A key arrives without Return ----
#
# Which is the whole of what key mode is for. In line mode the terminal holds what is typed
# until Return, so a machine that failed to ask for key mode would wait here for ever.
pid, fd = pty.fork()
if pid == 0:
os.execv(emulator, [emulator, "--fast", os.path.join(build, "keywait.bin")])
time.sleep(0.5)
os.write(fd, b"x") # No newline, on purpose.
finished = False
end = time.time() + 2
while time.time() < end:
if os.waitpid(pid, os.WNOHANG)[0]:
finished = True
break
time.sleep(0.05)
report(finished, "a single keystroke arrives without Return",
"" if finished else "the machine was still waiting, so the key was held by the terminal")
try:
os.kill(pid, signal.SIGKILL)
os.waitpid(pid, 0)
except (ProcessLookupError, ChildProcessError):
pass
os.close(fd)
# ---- The keys that are not characters, as a terminal actually sends them ----
#
# A window hands the console the key somebody pressed. A terminal hands it ESC [ A and
# expects the far end to know what that means, and the console is the far end. Every other
# test in this suite feeds a file, where the translation deliberately does not happen, so
# this is the only place the sequences are ever read as sequences.
def typedAt(typing, seconds=4, erase=None):
"""Runs the naming program under a pseudo-terminal, types at it, and gives back the
letters it printed. erase sets the terminal's own erase character first, which is set on
the SLAVE side in the child: that is the terminal the machine will find and save, and
configuring the master would be configuring something else."""
pid, fd = pty.fork()
if pid == 0:
if erase is not None:
attributes = termios.tcgetattr(0)
attributes[6][termios.VERASE] = erase
termios.tcsetattr(0, termios.TCSANOW, attributes)
os.execv(emulator, [emulator, "--fast", os.path.join(build, "escape.bin")])
# The machine has to have asked for key mode before anything is typed at it. Until it
# does, the terminal is still holding what arrives until Return and the sequences would
# sit in it unread.
time.sleep(0.5)
for chunk, pause in typing:
os.write(fd, chunk)
time.sleep(pause)
seen = b""
end = time.time() + seconds
while time.time() < end:
ready, _, _ = select.select([fd], [], [], 0.2)
if ready:
try:
data = os.read(fd, 1024)
except OSError:
break
if not data:
break
seen += data
elif os.waitpid(pid, os.WNOHANG)[0]:
break
try:
os.kill(pid, signal.SIGKILL)
os.waitpid(pid, 0)
except (ProcessLookupError, ChildProcessError):
pass
os.close(fd)
# Everything before the emulator says how it stopped. The letters have no newline after
# them, so they arrive stuck to whatever the machine printed on its way out.
return seen.split(b"Execution")[0].strip()
seen = typedAt([(b"\x1b[A", 0.2), (b"\x1b[D", 0.2), (b"\x1b[3~", 0.2)])
report(seen == b"ULD", "a terminal's escape sequences arrive as keys",
"" if seen == b"ULD" else "expected ULD, saw %r" % seen)
# ---- Backspace, whatever this terminal calls it ----
#
# SplitBit's Backspace is 0x08 and CosmOS's line editor looks for that. A POSIX terminal
# sends its own erase character, which is usually 0x7F, and while the terminal was doing the
# editing nobody could tell: canonical mode ate the byte and handed over a finished line. Key
# mode turns that off, so from the day the shell started editing its own line, Backspace
# worked in Voyager and did nothing at all in the console-only emulator.
#
# Both settings are tried because the fix reads VERASE rather than assuming 0x7F, and a
# terminal set to 0x08 has to keep working - it is already sending the right byte.
seen = typedAt([(b"\x7f", 0.3), (b"\x1b[3~", 0.2)], erase=0x7F)
report(seen == b"BD", "a terminal's erase character arrives as Backspace",
"" if seen == b"BD" else "expected BD, saw %r" % seen)
seen = typedAt([(b"\x08", 0.3), (b"\x1b[3~", 0.2)], erase=0x08)
report(seen == b"BD", "and a terminal that already sends 0x08 still works",
"" if seen == b"BD" else "expected BD, saw %r" % seen)
# ---- And nothing is rewritten when there is no terminal ----
#
# The translation is a thing done TO A TERMINAL, because a terminal is the only thing that
# has an erase character. A file or a pipe holding 0x7F holds a byte somebody wrote, and a
# console that rewrote it would corrupt input that has nothing to do with keys.
fed = os.path.join(build, "erase.keys")
with open(fed, "wb") as f:
f.write(b"\x7f\x7f\x7f")
ran = subprocess.run([emulator, "--fast", os.path.join(build, "escape.bin")],
stdin=open(fed, "rb"), capture_output=True)
said = ran.stdout.split(b"Execution")[0].strip()
report(said == b"???", "a 0x7F from a file is left alone",
"" if said == b"???" else "expected ??? for three unnamed bytes, saw %r" % said)
# ---- And pressing Escape is still pressing Escape ----
#
# Which is the whole difficulty: Up and Escape both begin with 0x1B and the only thing
# telling them apart is whether anything follows immediately. A console that waited for the
# rest of a sequence that was never coming would swallow the key; one that did not wait at
# all would never see a sequence.
seen = typedAt([(b"\x1b", 0.3), (b"\x1b", 0.3), (b"\x1b", 0.3)])
report(seen == b"EEE", "Escape on its own is still Escape",
"" if seen == b"EEE" else "expected EEE, saw %r" % seen)
# ---- And what follows an escape that was not a sequence is not eaten ----
#
# Escape and then an ordinary character, close enough together to look like one thing. It is
# two, and the second one is somebody's keystroke: the console holds it and hands it over
# next rather than throwing it away with the sequence that never was.
seen = typedAt([(b"\x1ba", 0.3), (b"\x1b", 0.3)])
report(seen == b"E?E", "a character after an escape is not swallowed",
"" if seen == b"E?E" else "expected E?E, saw %r" % seen)
# ---- The terminal is handed back however the machine dies ----
#
# atexit covers stopping on purpose and nothing else: it does not run when a process is
# killed by a signal. SIGHUP is the one that matters most, because it is what arrives when
# whatever launched the machine dies and takes the terminal with it - and a terminal left
# in key mode has no echo and no line editing, which is a far worse failure than anything
# the program was doing.
for name in ("HUP", "INT", "QUIT", "ABRT", "SEGV", "TERM"):
# Cleared first. Without this a run that dies before it can measure leaves the PREVIOUS
# signal's files in place, and the check compares those and passes - which is how the
# SIGQUIT case came to be reporting success while proving nothing at all.
for leftover in ("before.txt", "after.txt"):
try:
os.remove(os.path.join(build, leftover))
except FileNotFoundError:
pass
script = (
# No core files. Two of these signals dump core by default, and a test suite has no
# business leaving those around every time it runs. It also keeps the measuring
# shell alive through SIGQUIT, which otherwise takes it down before it can look.
"ulimit -c 0\n"
"stty -g > {b}/before.txt\n"
"{e} --fast {b}/keywait.bin < /dev/tty &\n"
"P=$!\n"
"sleep 0.5\n"
"kill -{s} $P 2>/dev/null\n"
"wait $P 2>/dev/null\n"
"sleep 0.3\n"
"stty -g > {b}/after.txt\n"
).format(b=build, e=emulator, s=name)
# < /dev/tty is load bearing. A background job in a non-interactive shell gets its
# standard input from /dev/null, so without it the machine never sees a terminal, never
# enters key mode, and has nothing to fail to put back - and this check would pass
# against a machine that restores nothing at all.
underPty(script)
try:
before = open(os.path.join(build, "before.txt")).read().strip()
after = open(os.path.join(build, "after.txt")).read().strip()
except FileNotFoundError:
# A failure, and for SIGQUIT this is the shape the failure takes: a machine that
# does not handle it dies in a way that takes the measuring shell with it, so what
# is reported is not "the terminal was left wrong" but "nothing got as far as
# looking". Both mean the same thing here, which is that the signal is unhandled.
report(False, "the terminal is restored after SIG%s" % name, "could not measure")
continue
report(before == after, "the terminal is restored after SIG%s" % name,
"" if before == after else "left as %s, was %s" % (after[:24], before[:24]))
# ---- Suspending is not dying ----
#
# Ctrl-Z has to hand the terminal back while the machine is stopped, because whoever gets it
# next is entitled to find it as they left it, and take key mode again on resume, because
# the machine has not finished with it.
script = (
"ulimit -c 0\n"
"stty -g > {b}/t0.txt\n"
"{e} --fast {b}/keywait.bin < /dev/tty &\n"
"P=$!\n"
"sleep 0.5\n"
"kill -TSTP $P; sleep 0.4\n"
"stty -g > {b}/t1.txt\n"
"kill -CONT $P; sleep 0.4\n"
"stty -g > {b}/t2.txt\n"
"kill -TERM $P; sleep 0.2\n"
).format(b=build, e=emulator)
underPty(script)
try:
t0 = open(os.path.join(build, "t0.txt")).read().strip()
t1 = open(os.path.join(build, "t1.txt")).read().strip()
t2 = open(os.path.join(build, "t2.txt")).read().strip()
report(t1 == t0, "the terminal is handed back while suspended")
report(t2 != t0, "key mode is taken again on resume")
except FileNotFoundError:
report(False, "suspending and resuming", "could not measure")
# ---- Waiting is not the same as spinning ----
#
# settle() strips cycle counts out of every recorded output, so no test in run.sh can see
# the difference between a machine that slept through a slow disk and one that spun on it.
# The two print the same characters and take the same elapsed time. What separates them is
# WHICH KIND of cycle went by, and that is only visible here.
#
# waitTest reads two blocks from a disk given ten thousand cycles of latency, with
# interrupts masked and no handler installed. Nearly all of the run should be idle. With
# the line-clearing removed from WAIT the total barely moves - it was 20,100 against
# 20,099 - and the idle count halves, because the second wait finds the first wait's line
# still standing and returns at once.
waitProgram = os.path.join(build, "waitTest.bin")
waitDisk = os.path.join(build, "wait.img")
if os.path.exists(waitProgram) and os.path.exists(waitDisk):
run = subprocess.run([emulator, waitProgram, "--fast", "--cycles", "5000000",
"--disk", waitDisk, "--disk-cycles", "10000"],
capture_output=True, text=True)
got = re.search(r"halted after (\d+) cycles, (\d+) of them waiting", run.stdout)
if not got:
report(False, "a slow disk is waited for", "no idle cycles were reported at all")
else:
total, idle = int(got.group(1)), int(got.group(2))
report("12" in run.stdout, "both reads finished", "%d cycles" % total)
# Two waits of ten thousand cycles each. Sleeping through both puts idle over
# nine tenths of the run; spinning through either drops it to about half.
report(idle > total * 0.9, "and the machine slept rather than spun",
"%d of %d idle (%.0f%%)" % (idle, total, 100.0 * idle / total))
else:
report(False, "a slow disk is waited for", "waitTest.bin or the disk is missing")
# ---- A period is a number of cycles, and this is where that can be said ----
#
# The manifest records what a program printed with the cycle count stripped, which is right
# for everything else and useless for a clock: the whole claim the timer makes is about HOW
# LONG, and a recording that says "it printed eight dots" would pass on a timer that fired
# them all at once.
#
# Eight periods of 125,000 is a million cycles, and the program does nothing else worth
# counting. Within a couple of hundred, because starting and stopping cost a few instructions
# and the last tick is answered rather than waited for.
beatProgram = os.path.join(build, "timerBeatTest.bin")
if os.path.exists(beatProgram):
run = subprocess.run([emulator, beatProgram, "--fast", "--cycles", "5000000"],
capture_output=True, text=True)
got = re.search(r"halted after (\d+) cycles, (\d+) of them waiting", run.stdout)
if not got:
report(False, "eight beats take eight periods", "no cycle count was reported")
else:
total, idle = int(got.group(1)), int(got.group(2))
report(abs(total - 1000000) < 500, "eight beats take eight periods",
"%d cycles against 8 x 125,000" % total)
# And it slept through them rather than counting. A timer a program has to poll is
# a timer that costs the machine everything it saves.
report(idle > total * 0.99, "and the machine slept between them",
"%d of %d idle (%.1f%%)" % (idle, total, 100.0 * idle / total))
else:
report(False, "eight beats take eight periods", "timerBeatTest.bin is missing")
print()
if problems:
print("The terminal does not survive everything it should:")
for p in problems:
print(" " + p)
sys.exit(1)
print("All %d terminal checks passed." % passed)
PY