Yes, but I just want to pass the filehandle on to basically a child process... either by a system("/usr/bin/perl test.pl"); or with exec in C, and be able to grab onto that filehandle and read from it. I mean, in the end this doesn't have to have anything to do with C and Perl, it could be Scheme and Python or whatnot (although I have no idea in the slightest what to do there).

Basically what I want to do is have a C prog that sets it uid to the owner, opens a protected file, set itself back to its original UID and then runs a perl script, but allow that perl script access to the protected filehandle... am I crazy, or is this possible?

                - Ant