Create service path directories

[MikeMcQuaid]

Fixes #22501

• Avoid service startup failures when explicit DSL paths need dirs
• Keep creation scoped to service block path fields
• Cover path inference and load-time creation in service specs

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Code Coverage Overview

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Ruby / code-coverage/simplecov

The overall coverage in the services-create-path... branch remains at 78%, unchanged from the main branch.

Show a code coverage summary of the most impacted files.

File	main 53d2800	services-create-path... e6dd289	+/-
services/system.rb	85%	81%	-4%
services/cli.rb	63%	62%	-1%
services/formula_wrapper.rb	86%	86%	0%
service.rb	95%	95%	0%
services/system/systemctl.rb	87%	93%	+6%

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