On 01/18/2013 05:09 PM, Dmitry Gutov wrote:
> So, vboxsf sees the change after the file has been closed, cifs - when it's reopened.

My goodness, I didn't realize CIFS was *that* buggy.

But this suggests a reason why the patch in
<http://bugs.gnu.org/13149#61> worked for vboxsf
and not CIFS, and even better it suggests a
variation that might work with CIFS too.
Could you please try the attached patch?