From df1e65bc8aee65d7545530c5f7f8e92b4873722b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeff Hill <johill@lanl.gov>
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 16:52:55 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] throw a standard exception

---
 src/db/dbChannelIO.cpp | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/db/dbChannelIO.cpp b/src/db/dbChannelIO.cpp
index 413041e01..2d522cb52 100644
--- a/src/db/dbChannelIO.cpp
+++ b/src/db/dbChannelIO.cpp
@@ -79,9 +79,11 @@ void dbChannelIO::write ( unsigned type, unsigned long count, const void *pValue
     if ( count > LONG_MAX ) {
         throw outOfBounds();
     }
-    status = db_put_field ( &this->addr, type, pValue, static_cast <long> (count) );
+    status = db_put_field ( &this->addr, type, pValue, 
+        static_cast <long> (count) );
     if ( status ) {
-        throw -1; 
+        throw std::logic_error ( 
+           "db_put_field() completed unsuccessfully" );
     }
 }