What happens the first time BASH is run?

[Tim Largy]

On 10/13/06, Tim Largy <tim.largy@gmail.com> wrote:
> When running BASH for the first time after installing Cygwin, the
> user's home directory is created, and .bashrc and other dotfiles are
> copied into it. Where is this behavior controlled? Is it compiled into
> BASH? If that is the case, what other scripts does BASH call upon to
> set up the user's home directory?
>
> Tim
>

Answering my own question: the existence check for the  home
directory, as well as it's creation, takes place in /etc/profile. How
I forgot this I do not know as I spotted it yesterday.

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