How to generate a core dump in Linux on a segmentation fault?

Question

I have a process in Linux that\'s getting a segmentation fault. How can I tell it to generate a core dump when it fails?

Answer 1

Better to turn on core dump programmatically using system call setrlimit.

example:

#include 

bool enable_core_dump(){    
    struct rlimit corelim;

    corelim.rlim_cur = RLIM_INFINITY;
    corelim.rlim_max = RLIM_INFINITY;

    return (0 == setrlimit(RLIMIT_CORE, &corelim));
}