There are two kinds of flags in vm.args - the emulator flags that end up being passed down to the runtime itself and “user flags” - things like boot arguments or application env - they are consumed by the erlang system. The first kind is passed in vm.args with + prefix, the second with -. The shell consumes both flags and ends up translating the emulator flags to be prefixed with - before being passed to the emulator itself.
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