"state" param in status file constantly set to RUNNING

[pinmike]

I'm trying to detect when sound is being produced or not based on the state parameter in the status file, however without any sound being produced, the parameter is set constantly to RUNNING.

This is on a raspberry pi, no virtualisation. The status file has an owner_pid set however there are no running processes on the machine with that pid.

[markc]

I'm sorry but this is definitely a question suited for the alsa-devel mailing-list...

http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel