About thread-plugin.c This plugin sets up a callback to a continuation whose handler function creates a thread. TSPluginInit uses TSHttpHookAdd to create a continuation that is called back after the HTTP origin server DNS lookup (the hook is TS_HTTP_OS_DNS_HOOK). The handler function for the continuation is thread_plugin. The thread_plugin function creates a thread using TSThreadCreate(), passing it the reenable_txn function as follows: TSThreadCreate(reenable_txn, edta); The thread runs the reenable_txn function, which simply reenables the HTTP transaction using TSHttpTxnReenable(). The thread is automatically destroyed when the function returns.