Refactor panes and filesystem; replace FUSE with 9P

2026-09-07T16:59:12Z

Consolidate pane, layout, memory and host code. Serve 9P by default over Unix sockets, with runtime mounts and optional TCP/QUIC transports. Remove FUSE and obsolete proof-of-concept examples. Fix highlighting and terminal-history performance, expand differential and stress-test infrastructure, sort navigation results while preserving the next occurrence, add syntax-colored Braille minimaps, remove SPC-k, and document 9P interaction as a repository skill.

9p: the client half, and a board that serves its own tree over the UART

2026-08-28T01:07:32Z

Step 5 of the 9P chain (docs/9p.typ 12.5, docs/registry.typ 9P-22, 9P-11, BOARD-1). THE CLIENT. `Client` in src/9p.zig is the mirror of `Server` and the same shape: sans-io, no allocator, no threads, no descriptor, caller-owned buffers, and it builds freestanding. 152 bytes of struct against the server's 9,488, because a client owns neither a fid table nor a park table -- the far end does. The API is submit / push+output+wrote / take. Completion is a PULL: a callback would fire inside push, inside the transport's read, inside the host's poll dispatch, which is exactly where fs9_service says filesystem work must not happen. `take()` returns the next completed operation or null, which is `Server.next()`'s loop-until-null contract read from the other side. Tags are a fixed 16-entry table indexed BY the tag, so an out-of-order reply -- which 9P allows and both reference clients rely on -- costs one bounds check. The reply's TYPE is checked against the request's op, because a tag is only as good as the table behind it. A `Done` borrows the input buffer and is valid until the next call; `take()` releases the previous frame on entry, so the rule is mechanical rather than remembered, and read data and error strings are zero-copy. And one real caller, so this is not a library with no user: the `9p` word takes a dial and a path, walks another instance's tree, and opens the bytes in a pane like any other `Look`. THE BOARD. A SECOND image, not a second role: the console runtime keeps UART0 bidirectionally and is behaviourally untouched. On the new one the UART carries 9P AND NOTHING ELSE -- no ANSI, no vaxis, no allocator, no heap module. The loop is uart.read -> push / retry+next -> handle -> reply / output -> writeSome -> wrote. `writeSome` is new and additive: `write`'s bounded spin DROPS bytes on a stalled transmitter, which on a protocol stream truncates a reply mid-message and desynchronises for good, where a short count cannot. BOARD-1's one divider write raises the line to 921600. 88,000 B text, 49,424 B bss, an 88,080-byte image -- 5.7% of the 1,536,000 B partition, against the console image's 809,536 B. THE COMPTIME BRIDGE, which is the part worth reading. `board9p.caps` is the ONLY place the GPIO tree is described; node ids, parents, names, permissions, handlers, buffer size and the per-pin directories are all derived from it, and `fan.dirs` makes `gpio//value` one table entry serving eleven pins. Modes are derived from which handlers a file has rather than declared. A second capability is a table entry, not new tree code. JP1 became a real table in the new leaf `src/board_pins.zig`, with the ASCII drawing RENDERED from it at comptime and the pin list COLLECTED from it -- the 9P image links no core and so cannot import board_memory.zig, and copying the table was not acceptable. A golden test pins the drawing byte for byte, the console's own shape test still passes, and the identical bytes are present in all three artifacts. PROVED. Two daemons: B read A's `/1/body` through the `9p` word into a pane, byte-identical to plan9port's `9p read` of the same path. Both board images build. No hardware was attached, so nothing about the board is claimed beyond what builds and what the host tests cover. zig build unit-test 585/585. fs-bench unchanged and still zero allocations on every read row. --- REVIEW FIXES FOLDED IN. Steps 3, 4 and 5 were verified on the happy path and then adversarially reviewed by three agents; eight defects, six fixed here, five of them reproduced with measurements before and after. Full writeup in docs/registry.typ `9P-27`. In brief: * a remote crash of the WHOLE daemon: one `size[4]` of zero plus one byte hit `unreachable` in `fs9_service.fill`. Also 99.7% of a core when the stuck buffer made `room == 0` return without reading. Now `srv.dead` is a hangup, checked before the room guard. * the editor froze 177 s on a dial: `connect(2)` ran on a still-BLOCKING socket before the deadline existed, and a full accept backlog waits forever. Now non-blocking with the wait spent against the budget. After: 2.03 s. * a 64 KiB pty read is exactly `queue_cap` and wiped every unread byte AND dropped itself. `notePtyOutput` splits at half the cap. Deterministic. * four silent sockets denied `--fs9` forever; connections now expire on the same five-second rule the frontend transport already had. * EMFILE spun a core; the listener pauses and leaves the poll set, as the frontend listener does. * `max_fids = 32` made `find` over `9pfuse` fail with 57 consecutive `Rerror`s -- refuting this step's own acceptance clause. 256 for a host, `board_fids` 32 for the microcontroller. Found clean and worth recording: `sig` reaches the foreground process group; the two-namespace pty lookup is right over both transports; `PaneFile`'s u4 wall is guarded; reader counts release on every abrupt-death path; `fs_origin` routing and the reply arithmetic hold under probing.

pardes.git/src/board_pins.zig, branch main

Refactor panes and filesystem; replace FUSE with 9P

9p: the client half, and a board that serves its own tree over the UART