From 6f237479e57cd7a1df705a1a01e78244b62ef194 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2015 11:38:23 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] ...

---
 src/calibre/utils/monotonic.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/calibre/utils/monotonic.py b/src/calibre/utils/monotonic.py
index 2de706a2a9..fb0a5cba40 100644
--- a/src/calibre/utils/monotonic.py
+++ b/src/calibre/utils/monotonic.py
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ except ImportError:
                 def monotonic():
                     perf_counter = ctypes.c_uint64()
                     if ctypes.windll.kernel32.QueryPerformanceCounter(ctypes.byref(perf_counter)) == 0:
-                        raise RuntimeError('monotonic() failed: %s' % ctypes.FormatError())
+                        raise ctypes.WinError()
                     return perf_counter.value / perf_frequency
 
         elif sys.platform == 'darwin':