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App-vNext#944- Added to readme explaining waitand/retryforever is not actually…
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martincostello authored Jan 6, 2023
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`RetryForever` does not actually retry forever; it will retry up to `int.MaxValue` (2147483647) times. Depending on what is done in the policy delegate this may take an exceedingly long time, but the policy will eventually hit `int.MaxValue` retries, get the last exception and stop retrying.

#### Wait and retry

```csharp
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Similarly to `RetryForever`, `WaitAndRetryForever` only actually retries `int.MaxValue` times.

If all retries fail, a retry policy rethrows the final exception back to the calling code.

For more depth see also: [Retry policy documentation on wiki](https://github.com/App-vNext/Polly/wiki/Retry).
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