diff --git a/reference/apache/functions/apache-child-terminate.xml b/reference/apache/functions/apache-child-terminate.xml
index 4fdfb66d49..4e63a72c09 100644
--- a/reference/apache/functions/apache-child-terminate.xml
+++ b/reference/apache/functions/apache-child-terminate.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.2 $ -->
 <!-- splitted from ./en/functions/apache.xml, last change in rev 1.20 -->
   <refentry id="function.apache-child-terminate">
    <refnamediv>
@@ -9,16 +8,28 @@
    <refsect1>
     <title>Description</title>
      <methodsynopsis>
-      <type>string</type><methodname>apache_child_terminate</methodname>
+      <type>bool</type><methodname>apache_child_terminate</methodname>
       <void/>
      </methodsynopsis>
     <para>
-     <function>apache_child_terminate</function> will terminate the Apache
-     process executing the current PHP request once it is completed. It may be
-     used to terminate a process after a script with high memory consumption
-     has been run as memory will usually only be freed internally but not
+     <function>apache_child_terminate</function> will register the
+     Apache process executing the current PHP request for termination
+     once execution of PHP code it is completed. It may be used to
+     terminate a process after a script with high memory consumption has
+     been run as memory will usually only be freed internally but not
      given back to the operating system. 
     </para>
+    <note>
+     <simpara>
+      The availability of this feature is controlled by the &php.ini; directive
+      <option>apache.child_terminate</option>, which is set to <literal>off</literal>
+      by default.
+     </simpara>
+     <simpara>
+      This feature is also not available on multithreaded versions of apache 
+      like the win32 version.
+     </simpara>
+    </note>
     <para>
      See also <function>exit</function>.
     </para>