Olaf, please start with reading the capabilities sections in POSIX 
1003.1e/1003.2c draft 17 (withdrawn). There It's available online at 
<http://wt.xpilot.org/publications/posix.1e/>. A number of people have 
already spent a lot of time figuring out how this could work.
--Andreas.
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