Thread Functions
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The Traffic Server API thread functions enable you to create, destroy,
and identify threads within Traffic Server. Multithreading enables a
single program to have more than one stream of execution and to process
more than one transaction at a time. Threads serialize their access to
shared resources and data using the ``TSMutex`` type, as described in
:ref:`Mutexes`.

The thread functions are listed below:

-  :c:func:`TSThreadCreate`
-  :c:func:`TSThreadDestroy`
-  :c:func:`TSThreadInit`
-  :c:func:`TSThreadSelf`