I configured my system so that it automatically starts Cygwin
during boot time via the Windows autostart feature, by using
startxwin and Cygwin/X to start several xterm and rxvt terminals,
and also to start one bash shell in plain Cygwin (outside X).
Occasionally, one or two of the shells started that way complain
bash: /cygdrive/h/.bash_profile: Permission denied
[snip]
My first idea was that perhaps that it could be a race condition between
Windows starting the Autostart applications and mounting the network
drives, because my $HOME is on a network drive. But this would not
explain the following: When I start several xterm's from my
startxwin.bat, it happens sometimes that the "permission denied"
error occurs on one of the terminals started *later*, while the
earlier started ones don't have this problem.