GNU Hurd has this already

GNU Hurd has this already

Posted Nov 7, 2002 6:33 UTC (Thu) by kaol (subscriber, #2346)
Parent article: Reiser4 - the mammoth arrives

They're called translators there. You can do magic passwd files with them, just as in this example here. Translators can provide even whole directory structures, so that 'mount' is done actually by setting a translator.

If the plugins would run in user space and could be set by any user, this would make linux much more micro-kernel-like.

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