File in Root Macintosh HD Visible?

I've done a search, but can't find anything. Is it just me, or are all the files in the Root Macintosh HD now visible, whereas in Tiger all the Unix files and directories were hidden?
Is this standard with Leopard, or is my install screwed up?

I'm pretty sure this is a bug and not a feature. They are showing for me too, but when I installed Leopard on my partner's computer they don't. And I think the for the vast majority of people they don't.
This thread is on the same topic:
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Lance Myers wrote:
I just purchased a new Macbook pro and migrated my data using migration assistant. I have just noticed an unusual file in the Macintosh HD root directory called "~". It says it was created today but modified yesterday! Its 557kb in size. Does anyone have any clues what this could be for?
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> Hi there. I wonder if anybody could help me!
>
> I am using CS4 but this problem still occurred in CS3.
When I set up a new
> site in Dreamweaver I go through the usual motions
selecting the local
> root
> folder and images folder. Then when I go into the new
site it creates an
> initial site cache as usual. After this (when I try to
upload anything for
> example) the cache seems to have disappeared (i.e. all
local files
> disappear in
> DW). It tells me that I should go through setting up the
site process
> again but
> this only ends up going round in circles!
>
> Curiously, when I look at my HD in finder, Dreamweaver
has created a new
> folder named "Macintosh HD" and inside it follows the
exact same file
> structure
> as the "real" local files except the website files do
not exist inside the
> root
> folder!
>
> I can not understand what is going on here. I suspect it
might be
> something to
> do with the locations of files and relative / absolute
linking on the HD?
>
> Please help if you can! Thanks.
>

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Yesterday I noticed that some strange files (directories, actually) had appeared in the root directory on my MacBook Pro, that is, the directory that contains the standard Finder-viewable Applications and System directories and the Unix bin and usr directories.
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drwxr-xr-x 2 however admin 68 Oct 29 22:36 -03ffffffd4ffffff-4e81010000
drwxr-xr-x 2 however admin 68 Oct 29 22:36 -03ffffffd4ffffff-c1b1a1d3c1
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