docs: the tree moved and the documentation did not
The site and several documents still described the system as it was before virtual terminals, the new schinit, the hybrid work and descriptor passing. docs/architecture/init.md described the wrong program. It documented a single schinit that parses manifests and supervises jobs, which has not been true since PID 1 was split: PID 1 forks a supervisor, spawns jobs on its behalf and reaps; the job table lives in /proc/schinit; a heartbeat runs both ways; and proc_reincarnate() re-execs PID 1 in place rather than panicking. Rewritten around what exists, keeping the reasoning that is still load-bearing -- the five failures of the sibling-init scheme, the escalation ladder, and the three bugs in the reincarnation path that each had to happen before they were obvious. docs/plan/init.md is deleted, which is the tree's own rule for finished work and had not been applied. Fourteen source comments referenced it by part number, so they are repointed at the architecture doc by section name rather than left dangling -- a deleted document nobody notices is worse than a stale one. docs/architecture/devices.md gained the section it has been missing since /dev/pci existed: what a driver needs from a kernel, why mmap is checked against the caller's claims, why DMA is a call and not a mapping, and why the write back after an interrupt is not optional. Also that a released device does not come back by itself, which is true and was nowhere. docs/architecture/networking.md gained a descriptor-passing section, and docs/architecture/README.md's stack diagram gained the two layers and the third seam it was missing. "Two seams hold the whole thing together" has not been true since /dev/pci. docs/plan/README.md said the hybrid work was deliberately last, on the argument that an interface with no consumer is wrong in ways nobody can see. The argument was right; the conclusion was not, and the document now says why it changed -- the alternative to a driver compatibility layer is writing a driver for every device that exists, and the original objection is answered rather than ignored because SchOS's own drivers are the consumers. The site: a Hybrid section with the eviction transcript, cards for virtual terminals, schinit and drivers outside the kernel, and the numbers remeasured rather than estimated -- 46,961 lines, 207 syscalls. The boot log in app.js is from a boot taken today, and the lines are trimmed to what the console can show without clipping, each still a verbatim prefix of real output. Two small rendering fixes found by looking at the pages rather than assuming: .console pre's min-height is now scoped to the hero, so a static transcript sizes to its content instead of reserving eight lines it does not have; and the docs reader's contents panel strips inline marks from headings, so a heading written `proc_reincarnate()` no longer carries its backticks into the sidebar. Every intra-doc link checked; none broken. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VQ7Qx8E1q1M1bbCq8QLHS2
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| `-Tty` | Pipes, `isatty`, `SIGPIPE`, Ctrl-C. **None can be checked from a screenshot**, and all were once broken in ways that looked like broken *commands*. |
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| `-Usb` | Attaches an xHCI controller with a keyboard, mouse and mass-storage device. Nothing on the default machine has a USB port, so without it a broken driver looks exactly like a working one. |
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| `-Sock` | Unix sockets. A socket layer that accepted every call and dropped every byte would look identical from outside. `socktest` has one process write and another read. |
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| `-Sock` | Unix sockets. A socket layer that accepted every call and dropped every byte would look identical from outside. `socktest` has one process write and another read — including the `SCM_RIGHTS` checks, where the descriptor passed is always a pipe end, because a pipe announces its own lifetime and that is what makes "was the kernel's reference released" a value rather than a belief. |
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| `-Evdev` | Raw input. Needs the QEMU monitor, because a key has to be *pressed* — characters typed at the serial port never touch the keyboard controller. |
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| `-Ps` | Process enumeration. `/proc`'s whole reason for existing is one directory per process, and nothing else in the suite touches it. |
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| `-Net` | TCP/IP. A listener runs **on the host** and the guest connects out. |
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