cpp strange behavior for #line and #include

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < 199801202148.QAA04895@melange.gnu.org >you write:
  >   /net/ocean/blahblahblah.../bfd.h
  > 
  > (With the final filename of blahblahblah... stripped, of course.)
  > 
  > On my system, /net is, for some reason I don't fully understand,
  > not readable -- it hangs when you do `ls /net'.
"/net" is often special -- it's the default place for some automounters
to intercept mount requests.

  > Thus, when cpp attempts to open the above file, it hangs, just
  > as it would if the file happened to be an NFS filesystem whose
  > host was down, or some such thing.
Yup, this sounds more and more like the automounter was sitting on
/net intercepting mount requests.


jeff