Bad idea. A file hidden from directory listings is not seen by rm either, so it never calls unlink for the file and a recursive removal of the parent directory fails with "directory not empty". Fix comments accordingly. Signed-off-by: Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
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