> The major reason I can think of offhand is that that's the easiest way 
> to get permissions checking properly enforced.
[...]
> userland server running as root could probably do the job.
What I was thinking of was running a per-login worker process under the 
credentials of the logged in user. That way, the kernel itself would enforce 
the permissions (as it would for any other userland process) so I get no more 
security holes than those I already might have.

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