diff --git a/reference/funchand/functions/register-shutdown-function.xml b/reference/funchand/functions/register-shutdown-function.xml
index a05a3f5360..3e0f88c8d6 100644
--- a/reference/funchand/functions/register-shutdown-function.xml
+++ b/reference/funchand/functions/register-shutdown-function.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.10 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.11 $ -->
 <!-- splitted from ./en/functions/funchand.xml, last change in rev 1.1 -->
   <refentry id="function.register-shutdown-function">
    <refnamediv>
@@ -36,8 +36,8 @@
      buffers using <function>ob_get_contents</function>.
      Since PHP 4.1, the shutdown functions are called as the part of the
      request so that it's possible to send the output from them. There is
-     currently no way to process the data after the request has been
-     completed.
+     currently no way to process the data with output buffering functions in
+     the shutdown function.
     </para>
     <para>
      As of PHP 4, it is possible to pass parameters to the shutdown function by