Add stream-based copyIn/copyOut for tar stream cp support

[yash-mandaviya]

Motivation

Downstream, apple/container wants container cp to support docker cp - / podman cp - style tar streaming (apple/container#1908) — where - is stdin/stdout for a tar archive. The key value of that feature is exact control over ownership and mode: the tar headers, not host-side filesystem metadata, define what lands in the container (see the use case in apple/container#1908 — injecting certs/config as a "dynamic image layer").

Today LinuxContainer.copyIn/copyOut are path-based (from source: URL / to destination: URL). A downstream CLI can only implement tar streaming by unpacking to a host temp dir and re-copying, which (a) loses uid/gid/mode fidelity (a non-root host can't hold arbitrary ownership and the re-copy reads host metadata), and (b) hits host path-length limits under the temp dir. There is no entrypoint that accepts an already-formed tar stream.

This PR adds stream/file-handle-based copy entrypoints. The guest and ContainerizationArchive already do metadata-preserving pax+gzip tar streaming over vsock — this exposes that capability directly, with no host staging.

Changes

• LinuxContainer.copyIn(archive:to:) — splices a tar stream from a FileHandle straight to the guest over vsock (is_archive=true); the guest extracts in place, honoring tar-header ownership/mode/symlinks. No host temp files.
• LinuxContainer.copyOut(from:to:) — streams the guest-produced tar archive to a FileHandle. Always archives, even a single regular file, to match docker cp CONTAINER:/path - (which always emits a tar).
• ArchiveReader.init(fileHandle:) — auto-detects format + compression filter (archive_read_support_format_all / _filter_all) so an externally supplied tar stream (uncompressed, or gzip/bzip2/xz) is accepted, not only the internal pax+gzip form. Mirrors the existing init(file:) auto-detect, for a stream source.
• vminitd copy handlers — handleCopyIn uses the auto-detecting reader; handleCopyOut honors CopyRequest.is_archive to force single-file archiving.

No proto change: CopyRequest.is_archive already exists; this repurposes it for the copyOut direction ("always tar-wrap"). Existing path-based copyIn/copyOut behavior is unchanged — the forced-archive path is opt-in, and the auto-detect reader is a strict superset of the previous hardcoded pax+gzip reader.

Testing

• ✅ Containerization and ContainerizationArchive host targets build.
• ✅ Added ArchiveReaderTests cases proving ArchiveReader(fileHandle:) reads both an uncompressed tar stream (the docker cp - case) and a gzip tar stream from a file handle.
• ⚠️ I could not run the swift-testing suite or build vminitd in my environment (Command Line Tools only — no swift-testing runtime; vminitd is a Linux target). The vminitd handler changes and end-to-end copyIn/copyOut streaming need a maintainer to run on-device integration tests. Guidance on the expected integration-test harness is welcome.

Known deviation / open question

copyOut streams pax+gzip (what the guest already produces for directory copies), whereas docker cp - emits an uncompressed tar. It's still a valid tar stream that tar/bsdtar auto-detect on extract, and it preserves all metadata. If strict uncompressed output is desired, that's a small follow-up (a filter option on the copyOut request). Flagging for maintainer preference before wiring the downstream CLI.

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