@kirby I'm not exactly sure what you're trying to do there.

If you want to open a file for reading and save it to a buffer for some reason, I would do;
#include <sys/stat.h>

FILE *fp = fopen("/home/chris/file", r);

//get filesize, will be in stat.st_size
struct stat stat;
stat(fp, &stat);

char *sneed = malloc(stat.st_size);

fread(sneed, 1, stat.st_size), 1, fp);

puts(sneed);

free(sneed);
fclose(fp);


But that's a terribly broken program, I reckon I can achieve what you want to do much cleaner with like 10 lines.