no effect of sleep() in gtk_timeout_add function????

[anuradha arora <anuradhampls yahoo com>]

hello,
i have called sleep() function inside the time_func.

time_func is called periodically via a
gtk_timeout_add().

Why does the sleep() call seem to have no effect at
all?

thanks,
anuradha.

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