A block write the device refuses after the kernel has taken the node's
copy: the node was told "Storage refused" while the kernel's cache kept
the new data, to be read back and perhaps written later. The kernel now
puts its own copy back as it was. Tested with a device whose writes can
be made to fail; it failed first.
POST's runner: a case whose starting state could not be set says so, with
what the node said, where it showed nothing; and a case that ends with
QUIT fails, as it did when the cases were a capsule, where the runner had
taken it for a completed line. Both tests failed first.
The v4 boot says "Artemis: virtio-blk attached" only when the attach
worked.
make -C v4 test, sanitize and hosted-check pass; amd64, aarch64 and
riscv64 boot, POST 538 of 538, dict_hash 0x5f0a949a6fc8ef2b on all six:
logs/20261007-135741, -140004, -140329.
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Captain Bob was told that v3 leaves the words POST's cases define in the
dictionary, and ruled that v4 should. That was false: v3's run_test_suite
puts the dictionary back after each word's cases (test_common.c:333,
:365). Shown that, he ruled that POST leaves nothing. The boot now
seals the system, runs POST, and has the node do COLD, whose printing is
not shown; PARITY:V4_SYSTEM is the system as sealed.
A case the node does not come back from ends POST there, named, with how
many were not run: it would have stalled the boot for hours, where the
capsule had ended it. The runner's test of it now uses a word that
really never ends.
hosted-check also requires that RS1 and T{ are unknown after boot, and
boots a program whose POST has failing cases (tests/post_cases_fail.c):
PARITY:FAIL, POST: FAILED, no prompt, none of a case's printing shown.
Comments and documents that still named the POST capsule or its two
hooks are brought up to date; NUCLEUS.md 6.3 says what v3 does, with the
lines, and how the wrong ruling came about.
make -C v4 test, sanitize and hosted-check pass; amd64, aarch64 and
riscv64 boot, POST 538 of 538, word_count=314, dict_hash
0x220ab283a504a3b3 on all six: logs/20261007-112638, -112901, -113220.
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v4/system/post.c: for each case it empties the node's data stack, sends
DECIMAL FORTH DEFINITIONS, sends the case's lines keeping what the node
prints, reads the stack, and judges: an error exactly if one is expected,
and otherwise the stack and every character printed. A failing case is
named with what it printed and left. Nothing of it is on the node.
Its tests are in test_host_quit.c, on that test's node: 29 checks of cases
that must pass and cases that must fail -- a wrong value, depth, order or
output, an error wanted or unwanted, a case of two lines, depth-only
cases, the starting state, more printing than is kept, and a line that
never comes back. Both widths and the sanitizers.
The boot still runs the capsule; that is the next commit.
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