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/user/apps/ping/ping.c

@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ static bool parse_u32(const char* s, uint32_t* out) {
 }
 
 // Implements the resolve host operation.
-static uint32_t resolve_host(const char* host, uint8_t ip[4]) {
+static KSTATUS resolve_host(const char* host, uint8_t ip[4]) {
     if (parse_ipv4(host, ip))
         return NTLSTATUS_SUCCESS;
 
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ static uint32_t resolve_host(const char* host, uint8_t ip[4]) {
     req.AddressOut = &resolved;
     req.AddressSizeInOut = &resolvedSize;
 
-    uint32_t st = SysResolveHost(&req);
+    KSTATUS st = SysResolveHost(&req);
     if (st != NTLSTATUS_SUCCESS)
         return st;
     if (resolved.Family != SYS_AF_INET)
@@ -258,7 +258,7 @@ int main(void) {
     }
 
     uint8_t ip[4];
-    uint32_t st = resolve_host(host, ip);
+    KSTATUS st = resolve_host(host, ip);
     if (st != NTLSTATUS_SUCCESS) {
         print("ping: resolve failed "); print_u64(st); print(" for "); print(host); print("\n");
         SysExitProcess(1);