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Johnathan Corgan 8162b7d9fc Cover the capture writer's failure path and split its flush cycle
The mesh rehearsal could not exercise the write-error stop at all, and
that is not a gap in the rehearsal. Removing the sink file leaves the
writer's descriptor valid, so writes keep succeeding into the unlinked
inode and the capture runs on; mounting a tiny filesystem inside the test
container is refused outright. So the terminal state added for a failing
sink had no coverage from either direction.

Split one flush cycle out of the writer loop as a function returning what
it decided, so the loop owns the waiting and the state transition while
the decision is testable on its own. A sink that fails every write now
drives the error outcome directly, and a working sink is asserted to
continue so the first test cannot pass for a writer that always stops.
The residual gap is recorded at the test: what is covered is that an
error from the sink produces the error outcome rather than the cap
outcome, not that a real full disk reaches that branch.

The rehearsal itself was otherwise clean on a live three-node mesh. The
header carries node, build, platform, tick period and the reading
caveats; every step reports every interval; stopping returns in 53 ms
rather than waiting out the flush interval; an idle status reports no
path and no bytes; arming twice is refused naming the active file; an
unwritable directory fails the command; and the node kept serving
throughout. On an idle node the entry gap sits at one tick period and
arm starvation reads about 1.4 ms, which is small but not zero, so the
measurement is live rather than degenerate.
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