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+/*
+ * dev.c - allocation/initialization/free routines for dev
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2001 Andreas Dilger
+ * Copyright (C) 2003 Theodore Ts'o
+ *
+ * %Begin-Header%
+ * This file may be redistributed under the terms of the
+ * GNU Lesser General Public License.
+ * %End-Header%
+ */
+
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <string.h>
+
+#include "blkidP.h"
+
+/*
+ * NOTE: reference manual is not structured as code. The following section is a generic
+ * section for all high-level cache search+iterate routines.
+ */
+
+/**
+ * SECTION:search
+ * @title: Search and iterate
+ * @short_description: search devices and iterate over devices in the cache.
+ *
+ * Note that high-level probing API provides information about superblocks
+ * (filesystems/raids) only.  For partitions and topology is necessary to use
+ * the low-level API.
+ */
+
+blkid_dev blkid_new_dev(void)
+{
+	blkid_dev dev;
+
+	if (!(dev = (blkid_dev) calloc(1, sizeof(struct blkid_struct_dev))))
+		return NULL;
+
+	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dev->bid_devs);
+	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dev->bid_tags);
+
+	return dev;
+}
+
+void blkid_free_dev(blkid_dev dev)
+{
+	if (!dev)
+		return;
+
+	DBG(DEBUG_DEV,
+	    printf("  freeing dev %s (%s)\n", dev->bid_name, dev->bid_type ?
+		   dev->bid_type : "(null)"));
+	DBG(DEBUG_DEV, blkid_debug_dump_dev(dev));
+
+	list_del(&dev->bid_devs);
+	while (!list_empty(&dev->bid_tags)) {
+		blkid_tag tag = list_entry(dev->bid_tags.next,
+					   struct blkid_struct_tag,
+					   bit_tags);
+		blkid_free_tag(tag);
+	}
+	free(dev->bid_name);
+	free(dev);
+}
+
+/*
+ * Given a blkid device, return its name
+ */
+extern const char *blkid_dev_devname(blkid_dev dev)
+{
+	return dev ? dev->bid_name : NULL;
+}
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_BLKID_DEBUG
+void blkid_debug_dump_dev(blkid_dev dev)
+{
+	struct list_head *p;
+
+	if (!dev) {
+		printf("  dev: NULL\n");
+		return;
+	}
+
+	printf("  dev: name = %s\n", dev->bid_name);
+	printf("  dev: DEVNO=\"0x%0llx\"\n", (long long)dev->bid_devno);
+	printf("  dev: TIME=\"%ld.%ld\"\n", (long)dev->bid_time, (long)dev->bid_utime);
+	printf("  dev: PRI=\"%d\"\n", dev->bid_pri);
+	printf("  dev: flags = 0x%08X\n", dev->bid_flags);
+
+	list_for_each(p, &dev->bid_tags) {
+		blkid_tag tag = list_entry(p, struct blkid_struct_tag, bit_tags);
+		if (tag)
+			printf("    tag: %s=\"%s\"\n", tag->bit_name,
+			       tag->bit_val);
+		else
+			printf("    tag: NULL\n");
+	}
+	printf("\n");
+}
+#endif
+
+/*
+ * dev iteration routines for the public libblkid interface.
+ *
+ * These routines do not expose the list.h implementation, which are a
+ * contamination of the namespace, and which force us to reveal far, far
+ * too much of our internal implemenation.  I'm not convinced I want
+ * to keep list.h in the long term, anyway.  It's fine for kernel
+ * programming, but performance is not the #1 priority for this
+ * library, and I really don't like the tradeoff of type-safety for
+ * performance for this application.  [tytso:20030125.2007EST]
+ */
+
+/*
+ * This series of functions iterate over all devices in a blkid cache
+ */
+#define DEV_ITERATE_MAGIC	0x01a5284c
+
+struct blkid_struct_dev_iterate {
+	int			magic;
+	blkid_cache		cache;
+	char			*search_type;
+	char			*search_value;
+	struct list_head	*p;
+};
+
+extern blkid_dev_iterate blkid_dev_iterate_begin(blkid_cache cache)
+{
+	blkid_dev_iterate iter;
+
+	iter = malloc(sizeof(struct blkid_struct_dev_iterate));
+	if (iter) {
+		iter->magic = DEV_ITERATE_MAGIC;
+		iter->cache = cache;
+		iter->p	= cache->bic_devs.next;
+		iter->search_type = 0;
+		iter->search_value = 0;
+	}
+	return iter;
+}
+
+extern int blkid_dev_set_search(blkid_dev_iterate iter,
+				 char *search_type, char *search_value)
+{
+	char *new_type, *new_value;
+
+	if (!iter || iter->magic != DEV_ITERATE_MAGIC || !search_type ||
+	    !search_value)
+		return -1;
+	new_type = malloc(strlen(search_type)+1);
+	new_value = malloc(strlen(search_value)+1);
+	if (!new_type || !new_value) {
+		free(new_type);
+		free(new_value);
+		return -1;
+	}
+	strcpy(new_type, search_type);
+	strcpy(new_value, search_value);
+	free(iter->search_type);
+	free(iter->search_value);
+	iter->search_type = new_type;
+	iter->search_value = new_value;
+	return 0;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Return 0 on success, -1 on error
+ */
+extern int blkid_dev_next(blkid_dev_iterate iter,
+			  blkid_dev *ret_dev)
+{
+	blkid_dev		dev;
+
+	if  (!ret_dev || !iter || iter->magic != DEV_ITERATE_MAGIC)
+		return -1;
+	*ret_dev = 0;
+	while (iter->p != &iter->cache->bic_devs) {
+		dev = list_entry(iter->p, struct blkid_struct_dev, bid_devs);
+		iter->p = iter->p->next;
+		if (iter->search_type &&
+		    !blkid_dev_has_tag(dev, iter->search_type,
+				       iter->search_value))
+			continue;
+		*ret_dev = dev;
+		return 0;
+	}
+	return -1;
+}
+
+extern void blkid_dev_iterate_end(blkid_dev_iterate iter)
+{
+	if (!iter || iter->magic != DEV_ITERATE_MAGIC)
+		return;
+	iter->magic = 0;
+	free(iter->search_type);
+	free(iter->search_value);
+	free(iter);
+}
+
+#ifdef TEST_PROGRAM
+#ifdef HAVE_GETOPT_H
+#include <getopt.h>
+#else
+extern char *optarg;
+extern int optind;
+#endif
+
+void __attribute__((__noreturn__)) usage(char *prog)
+{
+	fprintf(stderr, "Usage: %s [-f blkid_file] [-m debug_mask]\n", prog);
+	fprintf(stderr, "\tList all devices and exit\n");
+	exit(1);
+}
+
+int main(int argc, char **argv)
+{
+	blkid_dev_iterate	iter;
+	blkid_cache 		cache = NULL;
+	blkid_dev		dev;
+	int			c, ret;
+	char			*tmp;
+	char			*file = NULL;
+	char			*search_type = NULL;
+	char			*search_value = NULL;
+
+	while ((c = getopt (argc, argv, "m:f:")) != EOF)
+		switch (c) {
+		case 'f':
+			file = optarg;
+			break;
+		case 'm':
+		{
+			int mask = strtoul (optarg, &tmp, 0);
+			if (*tmp) {
+				fprintf(stderr, "Invalid debug mask: %s\n",
+					optarg);
+				exit(1);
+			}
+			blkid_init_debug(mask);
+			break;
+		}
+		case '?':
+			usage(argv[0]);
+		}
+	if (argc >= optind+2) {
+		search_type = argv[optind];
+		search_value = argv[optind+1];
+		optind += 2;
+	}
+	if (argc != optind)
+		usage(argv[0]);
+
+	if ((ret = blkid_get_cache(&cache, file)) != 0) {
+		fprintf(stderr, "%s: error creating cache (%d)\n",
+			argv[0], ret);
+		exit(1);
+	}
+
+	iter = blkid_dev_iterate_begin(cache);
+	if (search_type)
+		blkid_dev_set_search(iter, search_type, search_value);
+	while (blkid_dev_next(iter, &dev) == 0) {
+		printf("Device: %s\n", blkid_dev_devname(dev));
+	}
+	blkid_dev_iterate_end(iter);
+
+
+	blkid_put_cache(cache);
+	return (0);
+}
+#endif