Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 19:20:26 +0300
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> From: "Andrew Cottrell" <acottrel AT ihug DOT com DOT au>
> Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 22:28:43 +1000
> 
> Tests on Win2000 box:
> 1) If I run the following in the command prompt there is no error
>     if not exist glob\nul md glob

I guess that's because your default shell is cmd.exe, not command.com.

> Conclusion for Extended Error 183:
> Windows 2000 command.com is not able to perform the test for a directory as
> per DOS and Winodows 9x via a check for directory\nul.

Yes, it sounds like it always thinks the directory doesn't exist and
tries to create it.  I guess the only way to fix that would be to shut
up the error message with `redir' or something.

Thanks for testing this.

> I modified make's main.c and added the following line, but the crash still
> occured and I couldn't see any extra debug info or extra info in the crash
> outout.
> int _crt0_startup_flags =  (_CRT0_FLAG_UNIX_SBRK);
> 
> Any other suggestions on where to look or what to do next?

One possibility would be to turn on malloc debugging in Make (see
"info libc alpha malloc_debug" in the CVS version of the library), and
set the debug level to the highest possible value.  If this is a
genuine memory allocation bug, the malloc debugging code might catch
it.