Pax/Tar empty directory issue

I used the out-of-the-box tomsrtbt 2.0.88 to do a recover files from a W2K system I was locked out of. Files were on a NTFS partition. However when I went to use pax/tar to pack up a directory tree, it barfed with a "mem_get() of of memory" error. I managed to track this down to when it was trying to traverse a tree branch only containing empty directories. It seemed to be going around the same directories at the one level without stepping to the next part of the tree. I successfully worked around this by using find and cpio.

Anyone else seen this? If I get a chance over the next week or so I'll look at the code if no one else is.



Martin Visser
Network Consultant - Compaq Global Services

Compaq Computer Australia
3 Richardson Place
North Ryde, Sydney NSW 2113
Australia