What is a good way to dump a Linux core file from inside a process?

Question

We have a server (written in C and C++) that currently catches a SEGV and dumps some internal info to a file. I would like to generate a core file and write it to disk at th

Answer 1

use backtrace and backtrace_symbols glibc calls to get the trace, just keep in mind that backtrace_symbols uses malloc internally and in case of heap corruption it might fail.