libblkid: add blkid_probe_step_back()

It seems that blkid_do_probe() is too high-level solution for some
mkfs programs (for example ext4 mkfs supports "undo" so all write
operations has to be implemented by filesystem specific functions).

The new function blkid_probe_step_back() resets internal libblkid
buffers and move probing stuff one step back. It means that the
previously used probing function will be called again in the next
blkid_do_probe() call. This allows to modify on-disk data and check
for backup superblocks or alternative magic strings. Something like:

  while (blkid_do_probe(pr) == 0) {
    ... get SBMAGIC_OFFSET and SBMAGIC len ...
    ... use your private seek & write() ...

    blkid_probe_step_back(pr);
  }

References: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=902512
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/libblkid/src/blkid.sym b/libblkid/src/blkid.sym
index 62f981f4c..cf2a16f94 100644
--- a/libblkid/src/blkid.sym
+++ b/libblkid/src/blkid.sym
@@ -146,3 +146,10 @@ global:
 	blkid_do_wipe;
 } BLKID_2.20;
 
+/*
+ * symbols since util-linux 2.23
+ */
+BLKID_2.23 {
+global:
+	blkid_probe_step_back;
+} BLKID_2.21;