You could hook up to the parent process with ptrace or the equivalent debugging API of your OS of choice and forcibly change the directory. Stackoverflow even h

You could hook up to the parent process with ptrace or the equivalent debugging API of your OS of choice and forcibly change the directory. Stackoverflow even has an implementation: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/114262/81005 https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/114262/81005