diff --git a/src/ext/cwd.cpp b/src/ext/cwd.cpp
index 3345d33b9..b88a4df26 100644
--- a/src/ext/cwd.cpp
+++ b/src/ext/cwd.cpp
@@ -46,10 +46,8 @@
 #endif
 
 #if defined(__DragonFly__)
-#include <climits>
 #include <cstring>
-#include <sys/types.h>
-#include <sys/sysctl.h>
+#include <cstdio>
 #endif
 
 #ifdef BOOST_PROCESS_USE_STD_FS
@@ -154,14 +152,53 @@ filesystem::path cwd(boost::process::v2::pid_type pid, boost::system::error_code
 
 filesystem::path cwd(boost::process::v2::pid_type pid, boost::system::error_code & ec)
 {
+    /*
     filesystem::path path;
-    char buffer[PATH_MAX];
-    std::size_t sz = 4, len = sizeof(buffer);
+    // Official API (broken OS-level) - including code from DragonFly's fstat(1) 
+    // command line interface utility currently requires way too much code FWIW.
+    std::size_t sz = 4, len = 0;
     int mib[4] = {CTL_KERN, KERN_PROC, KERN_PROC_CWD, pid};
-    if (sysctl(mib, sz, buffer, &len, nullptr, 0) == 0)
+    if (sysctl(mib, sz, nullptr, &len, nullptr, 0) == 0)
+    {
+        std::vector<char> vecbuff;
+        vecbuff.resize(len);
+        if (sysctl(mib, sz, &vecbuff[0], &len, nullptr, 0) == 0)
+        {
+            path = filesystem::canonical(&vecbuff[0], ec);
+        }    
+        else
+            BOOST_PROCESS_V2_ASSIGN_LAST_ERROR(ec)
+    }
+    else
+        BOOST_PROCESS_V2_ASSIGN_LAST_ERROR(ec)
+    return path;
+    */
+
+    filesystem::path path;
+    /* Probably the hackiest thing ever we are doing here, because the official API is broken OS-level. */
+    FILE *fp = popen(("pos=`ans=\\`/usr/bin/fstat -w -p " + std::to_string(pid) + " | /usr/bin/sed -n 1p\\`; " +
+        "/usr/bin/awk -v ans=\"$ans\" 'BEGIN{print index(ans, \"INUM\")}'`; str=`/usr/bin/fstat -w -p " + 
+        std::to_string(pid) + " | /usr/bin/sed -n 3p`; /usr/bin/awk -v str=\"$str\" -v pos=\"$pos\" " +
+        "'BEGIN{print substr(str, 0, pos + 4)}' | /usr/bin/awk 'NF{NF--};1 {$1=$2=$3=$4=\"\"; print" +
+        " substr($0, 5)'}").c_str(), "r");
+    if (fp) 
     {
-        path = filesystem::canonical(buffer, ec);
-    }    
+        char buffer[PATH_MAX];
+        if (fgets(buffer, sizeof(buffer), fp)) 
+        {
+            std::string str = buffer;
+            std::size_t pos = str.find("\n", strlen(buffer) - 1);
+            if (pos != std::string::npos) 
+            {
+                str.replace(pos, 1, "");
+            }
+            path = filesystem::canonical(str.c_str(), ec);
+        }
+        else
+            BOOST_PROCESS_V2_ASSIGN_LAST_ERROR(ec)
+        if (pclose(fp) == -1)
+            BOOST_PROCESS_V2_ASSIGN_LAST_ERROR(ec)
+    }
     else
         BOOST_PROCESS_V2_ASSIGN_LAST_ERROR(ec)
     return path;