From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 15 19:28:54 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A08A41065670 for ; Wed, 15 Feb 2012 19:28:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ansarm@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pz0-f54.google.com (mail-pz0-f54.google.com [209.85.210.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 770488FC14 for ; Wed, 15 Feb 2012 19:28:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: by daec6 with SMTP id c6so1392653dae.13 for ; Wed, 15 Feb 2012 11:28:54 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=mNNhl32Y0UcrZtGAiUD1aj9T3bZhj1h6p4D8bqDuE50=; b=Bxi9OWLS5+ga5lrXRg4izfhQgpryQ713sWR3/AJPtOmOMJkSBNHjbKpYgWW+Mpt61+ L5lfR4D+xtZbTXDqPE9UbGzN2r2KXjtJwG0UA1rLqTVr1cEv4fS+0KxL6E7ksdjQzjhi 99x0nUE3hdBbvjXmAG6g1jzD0Wyvg5y32myEg= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.68.136.198 with SMTP id qc6mr760453pbb.160.1329334134184; Wed, 15 Feb 2012 11:28:54 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.68.23.74 with HTTP; Wed, 15 Feb 2012 11:28:54 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:28:54 -0500 Message-ID: From: Ansar Mohammed To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: nologin size X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 19:28:54 -0000 Hello all, I am trying to build a minimal size FreeBSD 9 installation and I noticed that the size of nologin is almost 200k. I built FreeBSD from source so I checked the distribution, and it's also 200k. So I went back to the source and just compiled nologin.c and it came up to 5k. Can anyone explain why this executable is so large?