* [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()
Ming-Hung Tsai
Joe Thornber