+ _dbus_return_val_if_fail (watch != NULL, -1);
+
+ return dbus_watch_get_unix_fd(watch);
+}
+
+/**
+ * Returns a UNIX file descriptor to be watched,
+ * which may be a pipe, socket, or other type of
+ * descriptor. On UNIX this is preferred to
+ * dbus_watch_get_socket() since it works with
+ * more kinds of #DBusWatch.
+ *
+ * Always returns -1 on Windows. On Windows you use
+ * dbus_watch_get_socket() to get a Winsock socket to watch.
+ *
+ * @param watch the DBusWatch object.
+ * @returns the file descriptor to watch.
+ */
+int
+dbus_watch_get_unix_fd (DBusWatch *watch)
+{
+ _dbus_return_val_if_fail (watch != NULL, -1);
+
+ /* FIXME remove #ifdef and do this on a lower level
+ * (watch should have set_socket and set_unix_fd and track
+ * which it has, and the transport should provide the
+ * appropriate watch type)
+ */
+#ifdef DBUS_UNIX
+ return watch->fd;
+#else
+ return dbus_watch_get_socket( watch );
+#endif
+}
+
+/**
+ * Returns a socket to be watched, on UNIX this will return -1 if our
+ * transport is not socket-based so dbus_watch_get_unix_fd() is
+ * preferred.
+ *
+ * On Windows, dbus_watch_get_unix_fd() returns -1 but this function
+ * returns a Winsock socket (assuming the transport is socket-based,
+ * as it always is for now).
+ *
+ * @param watch the DBusWatch object.
+ * @returns the socket to watch.
+ */
+int
+dbus_watch_get_socket (DBusWatch *watch)
+{
+ _dbus_return_val_if_fail (watch != NULL, -1);
+