How do RPC programs select which reserved ports they use?

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Issue

  • Some RPC programs (like rpcbind and rpc.statd) use additional random ports in the reserved port range, in addition to whatever ports they've been configured to listen on. How are those random ports selected?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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