How to Get a File Size (and others Posix Attributes like its mtime) in Common Lisp

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There is nothing built-in since CL predates the posix standard. After a look at Awesome CL, the Osicat library was my go-to package to look for such functionnality. There is its osicat-posix package indeed, even though it is undocumented (issue)… Now a look at the Cookbook is ok. osicat, osicat-posix osicat-posix is included in osicat....