Why is the file /bin/false so large?

[sgheeren]

Detlef Lechner wrote:
> Hi, 
>
> why is the file /bin/false so large (30260 bytes) for providing so
> little functionality (according to 'man false'?
>
> Regards,
> Detlef Lechner
>   
Could you shed some light? What is large? What is the size of the file 
on you system?

It is 30k with me:

# ls -ltrah `which false`
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 30K 2009-10-06 13:07 /bin/false
# file /bin/false
/bin/false: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), 
dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.15, stripped
# ldd /bin/false
    linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0x004a3000)
    libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0x005cb000)
    /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x00e05000)