diff --git a/commons/zenoh-shm/src/api/cleanup.rs b/commons/zenoh-shm/src/api/cleanup.rs
index 9b2fa2c50f..dda3637a07 100644
--- a/commons/zenoh-shm/src/api/cleanup.rs
+++ b/commons/zenoh-shm/src/api/cleanup.rs
@@ -16,14 +16,20 @@ use crate::cleanup::CLEANUP;
 
 /// Make forced cleanup
 /// NOTE: this is a part of a temporary on-exit-cleanup workaround and it will be very likely removed in the future.
+/// WARN: The improper usage can break the application logic, impacting SHM-utilizing Sessions in other processes.
+/// Cleanup unlinks SHM segments _created_ by current process from filesystem with the following consequences:
+/// - Sessions that are not linked to this segment will fail to link it if they try. Such kind of errors are properly handled.
+/// - Already linked processes will still have this shared memory mapped and safely accessible
+/// - The actual memory will be reclaimed by the OS only after last process using it will close it or exit
+///
 /// In order to properly cleanup some SHM internals upon process exit, Zenoh installs exit handlers (see atexit() API).
-/// The atexit handler is executed only on process exit(), the inconvenience is that terminating signal handlers (like SIGINT)
-/// bypass it and terminate the process without cleanup. To eliminate this effect, Zenoh overrides SIGHUP, SIGTERM, SIGINT
-/// and SIGQUIT handlers and calls exit() inside to make graceful shutdown. If user is going to override these Zenoh's handlers,
-/// the workaround will break, and there are two ways to keep this workaround working:
+/// The atexit handler is executed only on process exit(), the inconvenience is that terminating signal handlers
+/// (like SIGINT) bypass it and terminate the process without cleanup. To eliminate this effect, Zenoh overrides
+/// SIGHUP, SIGTERM, SIGINT and SIGQUIT handlers and calls exit() inside to make graceful shutdown. If user is going to
+/// override these Zenoh's handlers, the workaround will break, and there are two ways to keep this workaround working:
 /// - execute overridden Zenoh handlers in overriding handler code
-/// - call forced_cleanup() anywhere at any time before terminating the process
+/// - call force_cleanup_before_exit() anywhere at any time before terminating the process
 #[zenoh_macros::unstable_doc]
-pub fn forced_cleanup() {
+pub fn force_cleanup_before_exit() {
     CLEANUP.read().cleanup();
 }