Merge pull request 'Answer mesh-cli: the control-node's operator is the terminal, everyone else is not (hq ADR 0272)' (#176) from feat/272-answer-mesh-cli into main

This commit was merged in pull request #176.
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@@ -47,10 +47,20 @@ const servedVar = "MESH_SERVED_BY_THE_CONTROLLER"
// not anything it started, not a verb's command, not a seat call's. The serving controller marks its own
// environment (servedVar), so a build asked in it, or by any process it starts, never reads as the terminal's;
// runVerb also names the verb and the caller.
//
// **And a line mesh-cli asked as the controller's terminal** (novox/hq ADR 0272 §4): the serving controller runs it
// without the served mark and without a verb, names its caller, and marks it with cliTerminalVar — a mark only the
// mesh-cli path sets and every other command line the controller runs is stripped of (commandEnvironment).
func startedAtTheTerminal() bool {
return os.Getenv(servedVar) == "" && os.Getenv(verbVar) == "" && os.Getenv(link.CallerVar) == ""
if os.Getenv(servedVar) != "" || os.Getenv(verbVar) != "" {
return false
}
return os.Getenv(link.CallerVar) == "" || os.Getenv(cliTerminalVar) != ""
}
// cliTerminalVar marks a command line the serving controller runs as the controller's terminal for mesh-cli.
const cliTerminalVar = "MESH_CLI_TERMINAL"
// markServed marks this process, and so everything it starts, as the serving controller's.
func markServed() {
if err := os.Setenv(servedVar, "1"); err != nil {