this patch is from upstream, to fix -Wdeprecated-non-prototypes issues.
K&R-style has apparently been deprecated since even C89, and C2x will be
repurposing the syntax space. this warning triggers when the change would
affect the meaning of the code.
also start prefering NtDll API. so far:
* NtQueryInformationFile
* NtClose
adds a performance workaround for windows unicode conversion. but that
should probably be removed before merging