Almost nobody actually uses epoll at that kind of scale though. Almost everybody is just fine with `accept` from just one thread. and `SO_REUSEPORT` is safe if

Almost nobody actually uses epoll at that kind of scale though. Almost everybody is just fine with `accept` from just one thread. and `SO_REUSEPORT` is safe if you're using a fixed thread pool; it only fails if you use a variable-size thread pool or if you're using multiple processes and one dies (though frankly, if a process dies, you're going to lose something anyway). The "but what if I `fork` and `close`" problem is purely theoretical I'm pretty sure.