The test for whether to use valgrind runs: /bin/bash -c 'exit 0'
This looks pretty harmless; unfortunately, bash itself causes problems: $ valgrind -q --error-exitcode=1 --leak-check=full /bin/bash -c 'exit 0' ==32197== Invalid free() / delete / delete[] / realloc() ==32197== at 0x4C2ED5B: free (in /usr/lib/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-amd64-linux.so) ==32197== by 0x45E1D0: ??? (in /bin/bash) ==32197== by 0x45E37F: run_unwind_frame (in /bin/bash) ==32197== by 0x47B664: parse_and_execute (in /bin/bash) ==32197== by 0x4209D6: ??? (in /bin/bash) ==32197== by 0x41F893: main (in /bin/bash) ==32197== Address 0x423b828 is in the brk data segment 0x4228000-0x423bfff ==32197== Here I was using the provided Ubuntu 16.04 build of bash: $ bash --version GNU bash, version 4.3.46(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Maybe use some other known-available utility that doesn't play weird tricks with memory? /bin/ls works for me! -- http://rrt.sc3d.org