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AI-generatedalcOpenDevice missing timeout attribute for bounded device acquisition
Context The OpenAL 1.1 specification does not define a timeout for alcOpenDevice or alcCaptureOpenDevice . Implementations may block until the audio backend becomes available or fail immediately, with no standard mechanism to bound the wait time. Constraint OpenAL Soft inherits this behavior and provides no built-in way to abort a pending device open. The AL
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