VR_Init() memory leak on failure?

[GimpMaster]

I am creating a background application that monitors tracked devices. When I initialize I have a simple check to make sure steamVR is even running. It is as follows:

        vr::EVRInitError eVRInitError;
	vr::VR_Init(&eVRInitError, vr::VRApplication_Background);
	if (!vr::VRSystem() || eVRInitError != vr::VRInitError_None)
	{
		vr::VR_Shutdown();
		return;
	}

The issue I am seeing is when it fails it leaks a little bit of memory. I have tried this with and withour vr::VR_Shutdown(). If I bring it to the extreme example of running this 10 times a second it leaks about 1 Meg of RAM per second. The output from visual studio shows the steamVR dll's loading and unloading but there is some residual memory loss.

How have other people checked for steam running without killing their application if it is not?

[Kegetys]

I also see this issue and I reported it months ago here: #195, but nobody seems to have done anything about it.

[isometriq]

Added some of my observations on issue #195
My leak experience was located in the worker threads spawned when calling ::init() ..still not resolved.