shmget() system call

I'm facing another problem now. Does anybody have any idea what the Sun Solaris system library nsl (makefile usage -lnsl) is used for? If somebody do, what is the equivalent in the IBM AIX system?

I also have problems getting the shared memory id using the following code :

#define STKCODE_TBL_SHMKEY      7001L
#define STKCODE_HASHSIZE        ( 2 * 1773 )
#define STKCODE_LEN             6

typedef struct {
    char    stkcode [ STKCODE_LEN+1];
    int     key;   /* index to data              */
    int     next;  /* next entry having same hash value  */
} STKCODE_TBL;                              

int
attach_stkcode_shm ( )
{
  key_t         key;
  int           shmid;
/*  long                shmsz; */
  int           shmsz;

  key = (key_t) STKCODE_TBL_SHMKEY;
  shmsz = STKCODE_HASHSIZE  * sizeof ( STKCODE_TBL );
  if ( ( shmid = shmget (key, shmsz, SHM_RDONLY )) == -1 )    {
        perror ("shmget STKCODE_TBL ");
        return (-1);
  }
}

In order to get the makefile running, I'd removed the -lnsl option from the makefile in the IBM AIX. However, the system call to the shmget() function still fails.

The error message shown is as followed :

shmget STKCODE_TBL : No such file or directory

The ipcs command did show the shared memory segment was created successfully. However, I am unable to extract the shared memory id out. I hope somebody can help me out.