Theo de Raadt wrote:

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>> That is a very interesting anecdote. That has got to make Henning proud;

>> hell I'm proud of him. The amazing thing is that the ntpd binary on my

>> i386 is only 34.4K. The ntpd binary (non-OpenNTPD) on my i386 FreeBSD

>> media center is 263K, not to mention all of the other ntp* binaries,

>> which bring total size to 426K. Plus, OpenNTPD has privilege separation!

>>

>

> Try statically linking them, and then look at the numbers again.

>   

Well, I'm not going to do that, but I think I understand the point that

Theo is making.
(OpenBSD)

pachl@morpheus$ ldd /usr/sbin/ntpd

/usr/sbin/ntpd:

        Start    End      Type Open Ref GrpRef Name

        00000000 00000000 exe  1    0   0      /usr/sbin/ntpd

        05c18000 25c4c000 rlib 0    1   0      /usr/lib/libc.so.40.3

        0334b000 0334b000 rtld 0    1   0      /usr/libexec/ld.so
(FreeBSD)

pachl@htx$ ldd /usr/sbin/ntpd

/usr/sbin/ntpd:

        libm.so.4 => /lib/libm.so.4 (0x280b0000)

        libmd.so.3 => /lib/libmd.so.3 (0x280c9000)

        libcrypto.so.4 => /lib/libcrypto.so.4 (0x280d6000)

        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x281cd000)