diff --git a/bin/omarchy-security-functions b/bin/omarchy-security-functions
index 890d4430..12ad8a78 100755
--- a/bin/omarchy-security-functions
+++ b/bin/omarchy-security-functions
@@ -10,13 +10,18 @@ fi
 
 omarchy_security_require_privileged_bash_startup() {
   [[ $- == *p* ]] || return 1
+  # The caller is this check's parent, under the number this /proc gives it.
+  # arch-chroot runs the installer in a new PID namespace beneath the outer
+  # /proc, where $$ names no process, or someone else's.
   /usr/bin/env -i /usr/bin/bash -p -c '
-    mapfile -d "" -t argv <"/proc/$1/cmdline" || exit 1
-    executable=$(/usr/bin/readlink -e -- "/proc/$1/exe") || exit 1
+    stat=$(</proc/self/stat) || exit 1
+    read -r _ caller _ <<<"${stat##*) }"
+    mapfile -d "" -t argv <"/proc/$caller/cmdline" || exit 1
+    executable=$(/usr/bin/readlink -e -- "/proc/$caller/exe") || exit 1
     [[ $executable == "/usr/bin/bash" &&
       ( ${argv[0]:-} == "/bin/bash" || ${argv[0]:-} == "/usr/bin/bash" ) &&
       ${argv[1]:-} == "-p" ]]
-  ' omarchy-bash-startup "$$"
+  ' omarchy-bash-startup
 }
 
 omarchy_security_sanitize_bash_environment() {
diff --git a/test/shell.d/security-bash-startup-test.sh b/test/shell.d/security-bash-startup-test.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..f9c9d924
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/shell.d/security-bash-startup-test.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+set -euo pipefail
+
+source "$(cd -- "$(dirname -- "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)/base-test.sh"
+
+test_tmp=$(mktemp -d)
+trap 'rm -rf "$test_tmp"' EXIT
+
+check=omarchy_security_require_privileged_bash_startup
+printf '#!/bin/bash -p\nsource "%s"\n%s && ( %s )\n' "$ROOT/bin/omarchy-security-functions" "$check" "$check" >"$test_tmp/entrypoint"
+# Privileged mode turned on after startup: the mode is set, the proof is not.
+printf 'set -p\nsource "%s"\n%s\n' "$ROOT/bin/omarchy-security-functions" "$check" >"$test_tmp/late"
+chmod +x "$test_tmp/entrypoint"
+
+"$test_tmp/entrypoint" || fail "a script started as bash -p passes the startup check, from a subshell too"
+pass "a script started as bash -p passes the startup check, from a subshell too"
+
+for arguments in "" "-p"; do
+  if /usr/bin/bash "$test_tmp/late" $arguments; then
+    fail "bash that only turned -p on later is rejected" "arguments: $arguments"
+  fi
+done
+if /usr/bin/bash "$test_tmp/entrypoint"; then
+  fail "a script not started with -p is rejected"
+fi
+pass "bash not started with -p is rejected, whatever its other arguments"
+
+# arch-chroot runs the installer in a new PID namespace under the outer /proc,
+# so the caller's own PID is not the number /proc knows it by.
+in_new_pid_namespace=(unshare --user --map-root-user --fork --pid)
+if "${in_new_pid_namespace[@]}" /usr/bin/true 2>/dev/null; then
+  "${in_new_pid_namespace[@]}" /usr/bin/bash -c "for i in {1..50}; do /usr/bin/true; done; '$test_tmp/entrypoint'; exit" </dev/null ||
+    fail "the startup check passes in a new PID namespace under the outer /proc"
+  if "${in_new_pid_namespace[@]}" /usr/bin/bash -c "for i in {1..50}; do /usr/bin/true; done; /usr/bin/bash '$test_tmp/late' -p; exit" </dev/null; then
+    fail "bash that only turned -p on later is rejected in a new PID namespace"
+  fi
+  pass "the startup check sees its caller in a new PID namespace, as under arch-chroot"
+else
+  skip "a new PID namespace needs unprivileged user namespaces"
+fi