I just wrote a little C++ wrapper for some standard (and some pseudo-standard) C IO libraries.  goodio lets you do simple things without having to touch those ugly C functions like stat() and his friends.  You can check if a file exists, check if something
is a file or a directory, easily append/prepend text to files, change/check file permissions, create and delete files and directories, copy and rename files, and even get a list of all the files in a directory.  Let me know if you like it!