os: fix Root test failures on AIX

AIX has two behaviours that differ from other platforms, causing
test failures introduced by the CVE-2026-39822 fix (CL 797661).

Paths ending in / on non-directory targets may succeed on AIX
instead of returning ENOTDIR. This affects opening a regular
file as "target/" and following a symlink whose stored target
ends in "/" (e.g. "link -> file/"). Skip the affected
consistency test cases on AIX.

AIX allows read(2) on a directory file descriptor, returning
directory bytes instead of EISDIR. This causes root.ReadFile
on a directory target to succeed with err=nil. AIX is added
to the exception similar to NetBSD.

Neither change affects the security fix; AIX was not vulnerable
to the original issue because it does not follow symlinks through
a trailing slash when O_NOFOLLOW is set.

Fixes #80382

Change-Id: I8ddb3bc841c3d94bfeb91659dc6b3216a6a0d992
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/840085
Reviewed-by: Damien Neil <dneil@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Dmitri Shuralyov <dmitshur@google.com>
LUCI-TryBot-Result: golang-scoped@luci-project-accounts.iam.gserviceaccount.com <golang-scoped@luci-project-accounts.iam.gserviceaccount.com>
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