Back when the "Law of Leaky Abstractions" was first coined such things were given as examples: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/11/11/the-law-of-leaky-abstra

Back when the "Law of Leaky Abstractions" was first coined such things were given as examples: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/11/11/the-law-of-leaky-abstractions/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/11/11/the-law-of-leaky-a... > Even though network libraries like NFS and SMB let you treat files on remote machines “as if” they were local, sometimes the connection becomes very slow or goes down, and the file stops acting like it was local, and as a programmer you have to write code to deal with this. The abstraction of “remote file is the same as local file” leaks.