Add process management: enumerate, supervisor-gated kill, exit notifications

process_enumerate snapshots the task table (the device_enumerate shape, so
ps is a user program); system_spawn returns the child id, records the caller
as supervisor, and takes an exit endpoint; process_kill is allowed only for
the supervisor. Every death — exit, fault, or kill — posts a child-exit badge
to that endpoint (the IRQ-as-IPC pattern as SIGCHLD). A target caught off-CPU
is reaped in place; a running one is condemned and finished at its next
system call or tick, guarded so teardown never lands mid-kernel-operation.
Tested by process-list, process-kill, and supervision (a ring-3 supervisor
exercising the whole surface); design notes in docs/process-management.md.
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@@ -48,7 +48,11 @@ rather than restate it. Roughly in the order things happen at runtime:
real driver stacks factor into three shapes, how families share code, and the
proposed ABI for the three primitives still missing (capability passing, DMA +
memory barriers, MSI).
15. **[halting.md](halting.md) — halting.** Why a kernel can't just "exit", and
15. **[process-management.md](process-management.md) — process management.** The
microkernel's `ps`/`kill`/SIGCHLD: enumerate as a table snapshot, the
supervision link as the kill authority, and child-exit notifications over the
same endpoints IRQs arrive on.
16. **[halting.md](halting.md) — halting.** Why a kernel can't just "exit", and
how `while (true) hlt` parks the CPU safely once there's nothing left to do.
Start with the north star: