npm rebuild fails - node cannot unlink itself

[meustrus]

I'm trying to rebuild my dependencies (including node@10.15.3) with npm rebuild on Windows, and I get this error:

Error: EPERM: operation not permitted, unlink 'C:\myrepo\node_modules\node\bin\node.exe'
    at Object.unlinkSync (fs.js:951:3)
    at linkSync (C:\myrepo\node_modules\node-bin-setup\index.js:47:8)
    at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (C:\myrepo\node_modules\node-bin-setup\index.js:31:5)
    at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:189:13)
    at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:970:16)
    at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:259:5)
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! node@10.15.3 preinstall: `node installArchSpecificPackage`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the node@10.15.3 preinstall script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

This might only be an issue on Windows, which does not allow modifications to the executable of a currently running process. I think Linux is perfectly happy to do allow it.