diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 66bed35..0fcf202 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -16,16 +16,19 @@ travis-ci = { repository = "uutils/uucore" }
 appveyor = { repository = "uutils/uucore" }
 
 [dependencies]
-getopts = "0.2.18"
-failure = { version = "0.1.1", optional = true }
-failure_derive = { version = "0.1.1", optional = true }
-time = { version = "0.1.40", optional = true }
+dunce = "1.0.0"
+getopts = "<= 0.2.21"
+failure = { version = "<= 0.1.1", optional = true }
+failure_derive = { version = "<= 0.1.1", optional = true }
+time = { version = "<= 0.1.42", optional = true }
 data-encoding = { version = "^2.1", optional = true }
-libc = { version = "0.2.42", optional = true }
+libc = { version = "<= 0.2.66", optional = true }
 wild = "2.0.1"
-nix = { version = "0.13", optional = true }
+nix = { version = "<= 0.13", optional = true }
 lazy_static = { version = "1.3", optional = true }
-platform-info = { version = "0.0.1", optional = true }
+platform-info = { version = "<= 0.0.1", optional = true }
+# * transitive dependency via 'failure'; pin to <= v0.3.30 to avoid increasing MinSRV to v1.33.0
+backtrace = ">= 0.3.3, <= 0.3.30"
 
 [target.'cfg(target_os = "redox")'.dependencies]
 termion = "1.5"
@@ -43,4 +46,3 @@ entries = ["libc"]
 zero-copy = ["nix", "libc", "lazy_static", "platform-info"]
 wide = []
 default = []
-
diff --git a/src/fs.rs b/src/fs.rs
index 65819af..39d4b1f 100644
--- a/src/fs.rs
+++ b/src/fs.rs
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@
 // For the full copyright and license information, please view the LICENSE
 // file that was distributed with this source code.
 
+#[cfg(windows)]
+extern crate dunce;
 #[cfg(target_os = "redox")]
 extern crate termion;
 
@@ -101,7 +103,7 @@ pub fn canonicalize<P: AsRef<Path>>(original: P, can_mode: CanonicalizeMode) ->
     let original = if original.is_absolute() {
         original.to_path_buf()
     } else {
-        env::current_dir().unwrap().join(original)
+        dunce::canonicalize(env::current_dir().unwrap()).unwrap().join(original)
     };
 
     let mut result = PathBuf::new();
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index 58e7ff2..f6896a2 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ pub mod parse_time;
 
 #[cfg(all(not(windows), feature = "mode"))]
 pub mod mode;
-#[cfg(all(unix, not(target_os = "fuchsia"), feature = "utmpx"))]
+#[cfg(all(unix, not(target_os = "fuchsia"), not(target_env="musl"), feature = "utmpx"))]
 pub mod utmpx;
 #[cfg(all(unix, feature = "entries"))]
 pub mod entries;