[loeg]

Seed files are useful, but not a perfect solution, because they can be snapshotted or cloned in a virtual machine context, or otherwise shared/leaked. Also, they require a device to have writeable memory, which again does not work in all contexts.

I don't think trying to spin this as "OpenBSD solved this years ago" is especially helpful. OpenBSD has made a different set of design tradeoffs than the Linux authors, and both are arguably reasonable designs.

[daneel_w]

I don't understand what you mean by "trying to spin this", or how that, whatever it means, is not helpful. Helpful towards what? Admittedly I don't know if there has been a successful effort that breaks or otherwise proves OpenBSD's non-blocking solution as insecure, but I'd be glad to read any conclusions if you have any to share - it's why I asked about the reasons behind Linux developers' objection to the solution.