I'm curious if it's feasible to develop a generic program capable of terminating any process on various devices. Technically, I know you can script something to end specified processes if you invest time into making it versatile enough. However, I'd like to explore whether you could create a sufficiently universal program that could be converted into binary code, enabling it to end processes regardless of the underlying device architecture.
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Creating a program that can terminate processes is doable, but it heavily depends on the operating system. While you might think that converting it to binary would make it run on any device, that's not how it works. Each CPU architecture interprets binary code differently, meaning one binary might execute as addition on one system but do something entirely unrelated on another. You need to build the binary specifically for the architecture you're targeting.
Killing processes can be done, but let's be real—if you stop everything, then you'd render the system useless. Your idea about converting the program into a portable binary doesn't hold up because binary isn't universal; it's specific to each architecture, and machines need specific instructions they can recognize and execute. You can write code that operates on multiple platforms, but each version needs to be adapted for its own system.
Have you thought about what you'd actually need this for? It seems a bit extreme to want to kill any process on a device. Despite that, what you're suggesting won’t work as binaries are determined by the CPU architecture; they can't simply transcend different systems. Each system has unique binaries, and that's why creating truly cross-platform apps requires careful planning and often different versions for each platform.
Yeah, it sounds like you're aiming for something similar to hacking attempts, but there's a lot of misunderstanding about how processes and binaries work on different systems!