long lost child came home!

Hi,
This message appeared in my apache error log after an apache restart

[warn] long lost child came home! (pid 7773)

I have not seen it before. Does it ,mean that it was able to connect to a missing process ?

Apache version 2.2.3

Thanks.

 

Take a look at the appendix on http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/stopping.html

 

Thanks for the point in the right direction