feat: get_file_size
- gets the size of a file in bytes #1029
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User facing function added is
get_file_size(path [, err])
It returns the file size in bytes. It returns an error if the
path
is a directory or a symlink to a directory (because for the size of directories you will need to recurse into the directory and add all its component sizes to get its actual size)It uses
stat
and_stati64
on POSIX and windows respectively. It returns an integer ofkind
int64
to handle large enough file sizes.