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harness update fails: harness: text file busy #84

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$ harness update
[notice] A new release of harness cli is available: v0.0.25-Preview → v0.0.29
https://github.com/harness/harness-cli/releases/tag/v0.0.29
To update, run: harness update
New version v0.0.29 is available.
? Do you want to update? Yes
Downloading the following - https://github.com/harness/harness-cli/releases/download/v0.0.29/harness-v0.0.29-linux-arm64.tar.gz
Unpacking the contents and extracting to - /home/unop/.local/bin
Extracting harness cli to - /home/unop/.local/bin/harness
FATA[2025-04-14T09:48:16+02:00] open /home/unop/.local/bin/harness: text file busy

The updater is attempting to overwrite the same binary (~/.local/bin/harness) that is being used to perform the update - I wonder - Is this even possible?

As an aside, on update failures, it'd be nice if the updater informed the user of the location of the downloaded binaries, so they could re-use them to manually correct the failed update. e.g.

$ harness update
...
Downloading the following - https://github.com/harness/harness-cli/releases/download/v0.0.29/harness-v0.0.29-linux-arm64.tar.gz
Unpacking the contents and extracting to - /home/unop/.local/bin
Extracting harness cli to - /tmp/harness.AE1F94CD/harness
FATA[2025-04-14T09:48:16+02:00] open /home/unop/.local/bin/harness: text file busy

In place update failed. Please run the following commands to complete update.

   mv /tmp/harness.AE1F94CD/harness /home/unop/.local/bin

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