Spin-off syscall-related file operations (#78)

* [file_utils] spin-off syscall-related file operations

1. Eliminate the potential circular dependency between
   persistent-data/block.h and persistent-data/file_utils.h,
   if the former one wants to include the latter.
2. Avoid namespace pollution by removing the "using namespace std"
   declaration in block.tcc.
3. Correct the header hierarchy: base/xml_utils.h now no longer
   depends on the higher-level persistent-data/file_utils.h

* [file_utils] support block files in get_file_length()

persistent-data/space-maps/careful_alloc.cc

@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@
 
 #include <boost/shared_ptr.hpp>
 
+using namespace std;
+
 //----------------------------------------------------------------
 
 namespace {