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/time.h

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 // Public NTLite time ABI declarations shared between kernel, drivers, and user mode.
 
 #pragma once
+#include <stddef.h>
 #include <stdint.h>
 
 #define SYS_TIME_FLAG_VALID        0x0001u
@@ -31,3 +32,7 @@ typedef struct SYS_SYSTEM_TIME {
     uint64_t EpochSeconds;
     uint64_t TickMicroseconds;
 } SYS_SYSTEM_TIME;
+
+// File metadata and time syscalls share this fixed wall-clock representation.
+_Static_assert(offsetof(SYS_SYSTEM_TIME, EpochSeconds) == 24u, "SYS_SYSTEM_TIME EpochSeconds offset changed");
+_Static_assert(sizeof(SYS_SYSTEM_TIME) == 40u, "SYS_SYSTEM_TIME ABI size changed");