The article explains how to use epoll() correctly to solve all the problems he raises. That's not 'fundamentally broken,' because it works. The worst you can say is confusing and painful. Maybe that doesn't make good headlines, though.
When you're dealing with shared resources (like a listening socket), and you are using threads, and you are trying to maximize performance with networking, confusing and painful is kind of the nature of the problem.
When you're dealing with shared resources (like a listening socket), and you are using threads, and you are trying to maximize performance with networking, confusing and painful is kind of the nature of the problem.