2.5.27 sysctl

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This is making the sysctl code acutally be written in C. It wasn't mostly due to georgeous ommitted size array "forward declarations". As a side effect it makes the table structure easier

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deduce.

The comma changes are gratuitous, as pure ANSI C explicitly allows

constructs. (It was intended to simplify automatic code generation, as

well as for programmer ease to automatically deal with initializer lists.)

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From the grammar section of the 2nd edition (ca. 1988) of K&R:

       initializer:
               assignment-expression
               { initializer-list }
               { initializer-list , }

...where initializer list is what one would expect.