Title: find_unused_port()


find_unused_port() attempts to claim an unused port number. The first port number that is requested is equal to the index number of the udp file descriptor plus 0xC000 (49152). If this port is not available, the port number is incremented until an unclaimed port number is found. So for the sixth udp file descriptor (i.e., udp_fd_table[5]), find_unused_port() first tries port 49157 (49152 + 5), then tries 49158, and so on until an available port if found.

find_unused_port() is called only a single time: while setting a udp file descriptor's options with udp_setopt() (more specifically, if a user process attempts to set the NWUO_LP_SEL (Local Port SELect) flag).