According to the documentation of the "stat" function we can use Fcntl::S_IFMT($mode) call, where $mode is $stat2.
Results of the Fcntl::S_IFMT($mode) can be bit-anded with the various constants (S_IFREG, S_IFDIR, S_IFLNK, S_IFBLK, S_IFCHR, S_IFIFO, S_IFSOCK, S_IFWHT, S_ENFMT) to determine file type.

So, my question is - why last test returns TRUE?
'/etc/passwd' - is a regular file (not a link), and first two tests confirms this.
But last test says, that '/etc/passwd' is a link. 

#!/usr/bin/env perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use Fcntl qw[];

my $path = '/etc/passwd';

my @stat = stat $path or die $!;

printf "%s\n", -l $path ? 1 : 0;    # 0 - OK, not a link

printf "%s\n", Fcntl::S_ISLNK( $stat[2] ) ? 1 : 0;    # 0 - OK, not a 
+link

printf "%s\n", Fcntl::S_IFMT( $stat[2] ) & Fcntl::S_IFLNK ? 1 : 0;    
+# 1 - ERROR

__END__

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