How do I wait for an asynchronously dispatched block to finish?

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Trying to use a dispatch_semaphore. It should look something like this:

dispatch_semaphore_t sema = dispatch_semaphore_create(0);

[object runSomeLongOperationAndDo:^{
    STAssert…

    dispatch_semaphore_signal(sema);
}];

if (![NSThread isMainThread]) {
    dispatch_semaphore_wait(sema, DISPATCH_TIME_FOREVER);
} else {
    while (dispatch_semaphore_wait(sema, DISPATCH_TIME_NOW)) { 
        [[NSRunLoop currentRunLoop] runMode:NSDefaultRunLoopMode beforeDate:[NSDate dateWithTimeIntervalSinceNow:0]]; 
    }
}

This should behave correctly even if runSomeLongOperationAndDo: decides that the operation isn’t actually long enough to merit threading and runs synchronously instead.

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