Created attachment 17854 [details] [review]
the simple change that worked for me

I am using a debug version of DBUS from trunk on Windows compiled with msvc from Visual Studio 2005 Express Edition. I kept the following assertion:

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Microsoft Visual C++ Debug Library
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Debug Assertion Failed!

Program: ...
File: read.c
Line: 86

Expression: (_osfile(fh) & FOPEN)

For information on how your program can cause an assertion
failure, see the Visual C++ documentation on asserts.

(Press Retry to debug the application)
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Abort   Retry   Ignore   
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This page (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms235412(VS.80).aspx) says the _read() should be used instead of read() and it worked for me.