I think you will find something very similar in Plan9 land - lookup plumber http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/plumb http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th

I think you will find something very similar in Plan9 land - lookup plumber http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/plumb http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/plumb. Since plan9 from userspace is available under linux, it may be possible to do something with it.