fixing BLODA-caused fork failures

My company uses Cygwin and we experience fairly frequent fork failures, believed to be BLODA-related. I say "believed to be" because in this corporate environment, like many, we cannot uninstall the virus scanner even long enough to see what happens without it. The presumed culprit in our case is M

gcc writing to /dev/null actually writes to /dev/null.exe

Is this a bug which is fixable in Cygwin or just something to be lived with? % gcc -o /dev/null devnull.c % ls -ld /dev/null* crw-rw-rw- 1 dboyce Domain Users 1, 3 Sep 9 09:14 /dev/null -rwxrwxr-x+ 1 dboyce Domain Users 53827 Sep 9 09:14 /dev/null.exe % file /dev/null.exe /dev/null.exe: PE32