clean up and standardize types across the codebase, unify atomic operations, improve UTF-8 handling throughout the system, remove obsolete input and named queue interfaces, redesign process preparation and creation, tighten IPC and service boundaries, improve error handling and reliability, minor documentation cleanup, fix doom surfaces, fix panic in ini parsing.

code/public/ntlite/file_stat.h

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 // Public NTLite file metadata ABI declarations shared between kernel, drivers, and user mode.
 
 #pragma once
+#include <stddef.h>
 #include <stdint.h>
 #include <ntlite/time.h>
 
@@ -29,3 +30,8 @@ typedef struct SYS_FILE_STAT {
     SYS_SYSTEM_TIME LastWriteTime;
     SYS_SYSTEM_TIME ChangeTime;
 } SYS_FILE_STAT;
+
+// Native file metadata is copied between independently built modules.
+_Static_assert(offsetof(SYS_FILE_STAT, FileId) == 32u, "SYS_FILE_STAT FileId offset changed");
+_Static_assert(offsetof(SYS_FILE_STAT, CreationTime) == 40u, "SYS_FILE_STAT CreationTime offset changed");
+_Static_assert(sizeof(SYS_FILE_STAT) == 200u, "SYS_FILE_STAT ABI size changed");