Add wslc system info command

[beena352]

Summary of the Pull Request

Adds wslc system info (and wslc info as a root alias) that shows client version details and session manager state in both table and JSON formats. The command does not start a VM, it queries the session manager service the same way session list does.

PR Checklist

• Closes: Link to issue wslc: support wslc system info #41282
• Communication: I've discussed this with core contributors already. If work hasn't been agreed, this work might be rejected
• Tests: Added/updated if needed and all pass
• Localization: All end user facing strings can be localized
• Dev docs: Added/updated if needed
• Documentation updated: If checked, please file a pull request on our docs repo and link it here: #xxx

Detailed Description of the Pull Request / Additional comments

What it shows:

• Client block: package version, kernel, direct3d, dxcore, and Windows version, plus the settings file path. Dev builds also show the compiler version, commit hash, and build time
• Server block: session manager version and the list of active sessions (reuses the same table as session list)
  Design choices:
• No VM boot. The command only calls IWSLCSessionManager::GetVersion and ListSessions, which don't take a lease. This is the same pattern as session list
• --format json builds the full document before writing, so a service failure fails the whole command. Both table and JSON modes query the service first. A stopped service fails the whole command cleanly with no partial output.
• The session table is hidden when there are no sessions (no empty header row). session list keeps showing the header - that's intentional, they serve different purposes
• The WriteSessionTable helper is shared between ListSessions and ShowSystemInfo in SessionTasks.cpp, which is why there's no separate SystemTasks file
• JSON session entries use "ID" (not "Id") to match the convention in ContainerTasks and NetworkTasks.

What this doesn't do:

• No Docker engine version or container runtime info. That would need a running VM and HTTP client plumbing-separate work
• --session is a global argument and is silently accepted. This matches how other non-session commands behave.

Validation Steps Performed

• Ran wslc system info and wslc info with 0 and 1 active sessions - output is correct in both cases
• Ran wslc system info --format json and verified valid JSON with Client and Server sections, correct key casing ("ID", not "Id")
• Ran wslc system info --format invalid - clean error message, exit code 1, nothing on stdout
• CLI parse tests: 12 new cases for system info and info with valid/invalid args
• Structural unit tests: 5 new tests covering command name, subcommands, format argument, and registration under both system and root
• E2E tests: 5 new tests (table output, invalid format, JSON validation with key assertions, root alias equivalence, does-not-create-session check)
• Terminal unit test: 1 new test for Flush - verified it goes red when Flush is stubbed out, green with the real implementation

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Pull request overview

Adds wslc system info and the top-level wslc info alias, providing client, server, and session details in table or JSON formats.

Changes:

• Added system information command and session-manager version retrieval.
• Added localized output and terminal flushing.
• Added parser, unit, and end-to-end test coverage.

Reviewed changes

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Show a summary per file

File	Description
test/windows/wslc/WSLCCLITerminalUnitTests.cpp	Tests terminal output flushing.
test/windows/wslc/WSLCCLICommandUnitTests.cpp	Tests command structure and registration.
test/windows/wslc/e2e/WSLCE2EGlobalTests.cpp	Tests table, JSON, alias, and session behavior.
test/windows/wslc/CommandLineTestCases.h	Adds command-line parser cases.
src/windows/wslc/tasks/SessionTasks.h	Declares system information task support.
src/windows/wslc/tasks/SessionTasks.cpp	Implements system information output.
src/windows/wslc/services/SessionService.h	Declares session-manager version retrieval.
src/windows/wslc/services/SessionService.cpp	Retrieves the session-manager version.
src/windows/wslc/core/Terminal.h	Declares terminal output flushing.
src/windows/wslc/core/Terminal.cpp	Implements terminal output flushing.
src/windows/wslc/commands/SystemCommand.h	Defines the system information command interface.
src/windows/wslc/commands/SystemCommand.cpp	Implements the system information command.
src/windows/wslc/commands/RootCommand.cpp	Registers the top-level info alias.
localization/strings/en-US/Resources.resw	Adds localized system information strings.

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Suppressed comments (2)

src/windows/wslc/tasks/SessionTasks.cpp:177

• The new sessions.empty() branch changes the table contract by suppressing the session-table header, but the E2E additions do not assert this zero-session case: the table test only checks section/version strings and the session state is environment-dependent. Add a deterministic zero-session test that verifies Sessions: 0 is present while the session-table ID header is absent.

        if (!sessions.empty())
        {
            WriteSessionTable(context.Terminal, sessions);
        }

test/windows/wslc/WSLCCLICommandUnitTests.cpp:261

• This unit test searches only by Name(), so it also passes if the root-level registration is removed because system already contains an info child. That means it does not pin the second registration as the comment claims; also check the command's FullName() (for example, root:info) or count the registrations.

            if (subcmd->Name() == SystemInfoCommand::CommandName)

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Suppressed comments (3)

Previously missed (1) — in code that hasn't changed since the last review.

src/windows/wslc/tasks/SessionTasks.cpp:124

• The PR description says the client block mirrors wsl --version, including WSLg and MSRDC versions, but this implementation omits both fields in JSON and the corresponding table/localization output (the tests even require them to be absent). WslClient.cpp already supplies WSLG_VERSION and MSRDC_VERSION; please either add those values consistently to both formats or update the PR description/requirements before merging.

        client["Version"] = std::string{WSL_PACKAGE_VERSION};
        client["KernelVersion"] = std::string{KERNEL_VERSION};
        client["Direct3DVersion"] = std::string{DIRECT3D_VERSION};
        client["DxCoreVersion"] = std::string{DXCORE_VERSION};

src/windows/wslc/tasks/SessionTasks.cpp:152

• This newly added invocation exceeds the repository's 130-column .clang-format limit and can be wrapped without changing behavior, so source-format verification will flag it. Please run the formatter on this call before merging.

            L"{}\n", Localization::WSLCCLI_SystemInfoVersions(WSL_PACKAGE_VERSION, KERNEL_VERSION, DIRECT3D_VERSION, DXCORE_VERSION, windowsVersion));

test/windows/wslc/e2e/WSLCE2EGlobalTests.cpp:244

• The PR description says this command reports the same client versions as wsl --version, including WSLg and MSRDC, but this assertion deliberately requires both fields to be absent (and WSLCCLI_SystemInfoVersions omits them too). Please either add those values to both output formats or update the command contract/description before merging.

        // WSLg and MSRDC aren't relevant to wslc.
        VERIFY_IS_FALSE(client.contains("WslgVersion"));
        VERIFY_IS_FALSE(client.contains("MsrdcVersion"));

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