Panic when executing specially-crafted file

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If you create a file called /bin/loop with the following contents:

#!/bin/loop

The VINIX kernel will infinitely recurse in the userland.start_program function, until it eventually runs out of stack space and panics.

The way Linux deals with this case is by keeping track of the recursion depth, and setting errno = ELOOP and returning if the arbitrary max depth is reached (I believe the depth is 4 on linux, but don't quote me on that).