From e038f74b28f8a48e03e91bfe459a5af587a112fa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dianne Skoll <dianne@skoll.ca>
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2025 20:31:21 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Document that INCLUDECMD's cmd has stdin < /dev/null

Make testing yet a bit more verbose.
---
 man/remind.1.in | 3 +++
 tests/test-rem  | 3 ++-
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/man/remind.1.in b/man/remind.1.in
index 0ccdaa42..6fd665d9 100644
--- a/man/remind.1.in
+++ b/man/remind.1.in
@@ -2446,6 +2446,9 @@ you can write a command that transforms them to \fBRemind\fR format and then
 Note that if RUN is disabled, then INCLUDECMD will fail with the error
 message "RUN disabled"
 .PP
+\fBRemind\fR arranges so that when the command specified by INCLUDECMD is
+executed, its standard input is opened to /dev/null.
+.PP
 INCLUDECMD passes the rest of the line to \fBpopen\fR(3), meaning that
 the command is executed by the shell.  As such, shell meta-characters
 may need escaping or arguments quoting, depending on what you're trying
diff --git a/tests/test-rem b/tests/test-rem
index 26c47203..0bdfa288 100644
--- a/tests/test-rem
+++ b/tests/test-rem
@@ -624,6 +624,7 @@ grep -F -v -a '$SysInclude' < $OUT > $OUT.1 && mv -f $OUT.1 $OUT
 RUNMAN=0
 man man 2>&1 | grep -e --warnings > /dev/null 2>&1
 if test "$?" = 0 ; then
+    echo "Checking syntax of man pages"
     RUNMAN=1
 fi
 for i in ../man/*.1 ; do
@@ -762,7 +763,7 @@ $REMIND ../tests/ret1.rem 7 June 2000 >> $OUT 2>&1
 $REMIND -s ../tests/ret1.rem 1 June 2000 >> $OUT 2>&1
 
 # Make sure all the include files are ok
-echo "Checking files in ../include"
+echo "Checking syntax of *.rem files in ../include"
 find ../include -type f -name '*.rem' | while read x; do $REMIND -du -n $x 1 Jan 2024 2>>$OUT 1>/dev/null; done
 
 # Test todos