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Yes, the sysfs API for GPIO consists of just text files.  But it isn't straightforward finding those files.

The sysfs text file API is now deprecated, in favor of a new ioctl() API that should have been used in the first place.

libsimpleio supports both (if the target kernel does).

Phil