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    <pre>I was trying to receive a reply from a method call I made using dbus_pending_call_steal_reply but the thing is it tells me I'm trying to use an incorrect argument during runtime.</pre>
    <pre>This is the code I was using:</pre>
    <pre>#include <stdio.h>
#include <dbus/dbus.h>                                                                                                                              
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
        DBusError err;
        DBusConnection *con;
        DBusMessage *msg;
        DBusMessage *reply;
        DBusPendingCall *pending;

        dbus_error_init(&err);

        con = dbus_bus_get(DBUS_BUS_SYSTEM, &err);
        if (dbus_error_is_set(&err)) {
                fprintf(stderr, "ERROR: %s\n", err.message);
                dbus_error_free(&err);
                exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
        }

        msg = dbus_message_new_method_call("org.freedesktop.systemd1", "/org/freedesktop/systemd1", "org.freedesktop.systemd1.Manager", "GetUnit");
        const char *msg_arg1 = "cron.service";
        dbus_message_append_args(msg,
                                DBUS_TYPE_STRING, &msg_arg1,
                                DBUS_TYPE_INVALID);

        dbus_connection_send_with_reply(con, msg, &pending, DBUS_TIMEOUT_USE_DEFAULT);

        for (;;) {
                if ((reply = dbus_pending_call_steal_reply(pending)) == NULL)
                        continue;
                else
                        break;
        }

        return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

And the error was:

dbus[6959]: arguments to dbus_pending_call_steal_reply() were incorrect, assertion "pending->completed" failed in file ../../../dbus/dbus-pending-call.c line 734.
This is normally a bug in some application using the D-Bus library.

  D-Bus not built with -rdynamic so unable to print a backtrace
Aborted

If instead of that for loop I call dbus_pending_call_block() and then steal the reply it works fine.
According to <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/api/html/group__DBusPendingCall.html#ga5a738928c2369fef093ce00658903d06">https://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/api/html/group__DBusPendingCall.html#ga5a738928c2369fef093ce00658903d06</a> dbus_pending_call_steal_reply should return NULL if the reply isn't there yet, so I don't know, is this a bug with that function or was I doing something wrong?
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