Screen version 4.01.00devel (GNU) 2-May-06, running on Ubuntu Server 14

I make a screen, detach, make another screen with a name matching the first few characters of the other screen's name, and detach. When I try to attach to the first screen again, it attaches me to the second screen instead. The first screen is inaccessible unless I attach to it by PID.

screen -S py_dev [detached from 11572.py_dev] screen -S py_dev2 [detached from 29615.py_dev2] screen -r py_dev [detached from 29615.py_dev2]

I don't see this behavior in the manual (it simply says screen -r (pid.sessionname)) or anywhere online. screen -x has the same problem. If I do screen -r 11572, I can attach to the first screen, but that's annoying. Any way to avoid this?

1 Answer

This is a bug:

Use the process ID instead, or prefix your numerical session names with zeroes.

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