Is the boilerplate for epoll across ten threads listening for incoming HTTP requests non-trivial? It sure is! Should the first person who wrote that code in C

Is the boilerplate for epoll across ten threads listening for incoming HTTP requests non-trivial? It sure is! Should the first person who wrote that code in C get to claim ownership over anything that is substantially similar? According to the courts in the US, the answer is “No”, and thank goodness for that!