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Clarify the usage of SHM with priviledged users (#497)
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Signed-off-by: Mario Dominguez <mariodominguez@eprosima.com>
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Mario-DL authored Jun 1, 2023
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DomainParticipants are able to read it directly using the
shared memory mechanisms.

.. note::

Launching any of the processes with a higher privileged user (for instance, *root*)
can lead to communication problems, as processes run by non-privileged users may
not be able to write into the memory segment.

Every segment has a *segmentId*, a 16 character UUID that uniquely identifies each shared memory segment.
These *segmentIds* are used to identify and access the segment of each DomainParticipant.

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