Here is a reason you might want to rank this bug higher than the current
"low" rank.
People may navigate into read-only data via links or favourites or the
"back" navigation so it might not be apparent what is read-only. It is
conceivable that not all applications indicate read-only data, or
Public bug reported:
The directory icon modifier which is the padlock is missing from a child
directory after a recursive "read-only" chmod on a parent directory.
This bug has been around for years.
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