The directory filenames.

-rw------- 1 blahblah student 0 Feb 20 14:31 her
-rw------- 1 blahblah student 0 Feb 20 14:31 hi
-rw------- 1 blahblah student 0 Feb 20 14:31 him
lrwxrwxrwx 1 blahblah student 2 Feb 20 18:45 linktome -> me
-rw------- 1 blahblah student 0 Feb 20 14:31 me
-rw------- 1 blahblah student 0 Feb 20 14:31 you

CODE snippet... 

if (!stat( filepathname, &statdata)) {
      if (S_ISLNK(statdata.st_mode)) {  //THIS TELLS ME THAT linktome is a FILE and not a LINK (although it clearly has an l tag)
        printf("The object %s is a soft link\n", dentry->d_name);
      }
      else if (S_ISDIR(statdata.st_mode)) {//WORKS FINE
        printf("The object %s is a directory\n", dentry->d_name);
      }
      else {//WORKS FINE
        printf("The object %s is a file and will be copied\n", dentry->d_name);
      }
}