[screen-devel] [bug #31810] session names starting with numeric characters can't be reattached by the name alone

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URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?31810>

                 Summary: session names starting with numeric characters 
can't be reattached by the name alone
                 Project: GNU Screen
            Submitted by: None
            Submitted on: Mon 06 Dec 2010 06:07:04 PM UTC
                Category: None
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: None
           Fixed Release: None
         Planned Release: None
           Work Required: None

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Details:

Create a screen session like this:

> screen -S 2kinds

Then detach from the session, and try to reattach like this:

> screen -r 2kinds

You'll get this error message:

 "There is no screen to be resumed matching 2kinds."

However "screen -list" shows that the screen session is still there:

> screen -list
There is a screen on:
        10518.2kinds  (12/06/2010 11:20:56 AM)  (Detached)

The only way to reattach the session is to give the full pid.host to the -S
argument:

> screen -r 10518.2kinds

Note that this occurs even if there is only one session that was created with
the '2kinds' name.  I originally thought the problem was due to ambiguity
between session names (more than one session with the same name, but different
PIDs).  However, the above example shows that the problem occurs even when
there is only one screen session running.





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