in reply to Re^2: Force 2 'ctrl-c's to kill program
in thread Force 2 'ctrl-c's to kill program
So you didn't eliminate the sleep() call? Think about it, why would you still need the sleep call when you know the time the first ctrl-c happened. Without the sleep call the ctrl-c subroutine should be finished almost immediately.
PS: Using something like sleep() in an interrupt routine is bad design. Interrupt routines should never have a long running time because the code they are interrupting might have expectations of things occuring at a certain speed without seconds-long freezing. For example the user interface
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